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PROPERTY
University Hospital of North Staffordshire, UK
MAJOR PFI PROJECT FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT
Client:
Laing O’Rourke
Project team:
SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle): Equion
Architect: RyderHKS
Contractor: Laing O’Rourke
Project value:
£400M
Project size:
Total New Build: 130 000 sq m
Total Refurbishment: 30 000 sq m
WSP services:
Infrastructure design
Highway engineering
Structural design
Geotechnical engineering
Environmental consultancy
Building services engineering
Vertical transportation
The University Hospital of North Staffordshire is one of the largest
acute teaching hospitals in the UK, serving a local population of half
a million in the central part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent and
providing more specialist services for around three million people
in the wider area.
In one of the largest strategic health care improvement projects
in the UK, hospital provision in the area will be rationalised through
the £400M ‘Fit for the Future Project’.This will centralise all clinical
services currently delivered by three hospitals onto one site, whilst
six miles to the north a modern community and sub-acute hospital
will improve the local health provision.
WSP has been involved in the project since 2002, when we were
appointed by contractor Laing O’Rourke to provide design input to
support their client Equion in its bid for selection by the NHS as its
private sector partner with responsibility for delivery and
maintenance of the hospital buildings.
In September 2003, Equion was selected as one of two bidders who
would liaise with the NHS Trust to draw up specifications for the
new hospitals and agree financial and legal issues.At this stage,WSP’s
role was to produce high level drawings showing the location and
interrelationship of all areas within the hospitals. In December 2003
Equion was chosen to be the preferred bidder to go forward to the
next stage and to build the hospital, with WSP as part of the project
team providing a multi disciplinary engineering design service.
There are six elements to ‘Fit for the Future’:
■ A new accident and emergency department with dedicated
areas for adults and children and staff from a range of services
such as psychiatry, occupational therapy, social services and
district nurse liaison;
■ A new diagnostic and treatment centre for non-emergency
treatments and procedures requiring patient stays of less than
23 hours, this will be complemented by separate work to improve
facilities within community hospitals and local health centres;
■ A new maternity unit, providing antenatal services, foetal and
maternal assessment, delivery and antenatal and post natal
inpatient care in a homely environment;
■ A new cancer unit, incorporating oncology, haematology and
outpatient and radiotherapy services;
■ A new cardiac services area, bringing together cardiac surgery
and cardiology;
■ The Haywood site in North Stoke will have new wards and a
walk-in centre as well as being refurbished and landscaped to
provide a more people-focused environment where staff can
provide a more efficient and responsive level of local healthcare
in a currently under-resourced area.
Work began on site in October 2005 and will continue for seven
years, through a phased programme of delivery in which WSP must
meet the challenge of maintaining hospital facilities and ensuring all
functions can continue whilst altering the entire infrastructure of the
hospital complex.
Laing O’Rourke’s confidence in WSP’s ability to accomplish the
complex task is based on strong multi disciplinary skills in the
healthcare sector, and on the experience of working together on
other major PFI schemes.These result in well resourced projects and
a seamless “one-stop-shop” service to deliver high quality, innovative
designs for guaranteed, long-term performance of hospital buildings,
against tight timescales and within fixed budgets.
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