Capital health : London's new health care estate / [NHS Capital Investment Unit for the London Strategic Health Authorities].

  • National health services - Great Britain
Date:
2005
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Credit: Capital health : London's new health care estate / [NHS Capital Investment Unit for the London Strategic Health Authorities]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BECaD Brent Emergency Care and Diagnostic Centre Park Royal, Brent Client North West London Hospitals NHS Trust Architect HLM Architects with Avanti Architects Consortium Bouygues UK Programme Due for completion in 2006 Cost Estimated £56M procured by PFI Bucking the trend towards increasing clinical specialisation, BECaD is an experiment in rationalising medical expertise on a single site to meet local community demands. The key objective behind the clinical redesign was to streamline the patient pathway and reorganise the medical teams around the new workflows. Staff are | rearranged into “superteams” that merge hospital services and care in the community. The hospital has graded services not according to medical specialists but according to severity. : For this industrial area of NW London the Park Royal Partnership have produced a masterplan with the. redeveloped Central Middlesex Hospital as a catalyst for urban regeneration. The form of the building ts influenced by the characteristics of the grounds, its access to ACAD and the civic presence of the building. Meeting the brief was not simply about functional and clinical adjacency but the desire to create a pleasing patient and work environment. The combination of the raacce Cer] mt gicelttaial elelar-Tare o\Vd(on co) (i (sa aalcuiel corel [eimteler-ya The project commenced with a six month simulation exercise in clinical redesign testing out ideas with up to 30 doctors and nurses playing out redefined roles. provision at primary and intermediate care levels the hospital is to reduce the need for non-acute accommodation. Without an outpatients department BECaD is a fresh conceptual type containing an Expert Consulting Centre and an Acute and Critical Care Centre. The conceptual design includes a major public zone at the heart of the building which brings light and a sense of the weather and seasons into the core of the complex.
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