Design with dignity
Leighton Hospital Diagnostic & Treatment Centre in Crewe, Cheshire, is the biggest single development in the area’s healthcare since the 1960s. The state-of-the-art facility, built by Interserve, includes 4 day case operating theatres, 4 endoscopy rooms, a pre-operative assessment clinic, consulting rooms, 30-trolley recovery ward and a minor treatment room.
Interserve was selected as the Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust’s preferred partner under the NHS ProCure21 Framework. Following strategic planning by our healthcare planners and detailed design, work began on site in July 2004 and was completed 11 weeks ahead of schedule in October 2005. The new facility is light, airy and spacious and features innovations that promote patient dignity and privacy as well as practical solutions for easy maintenance and access.
Interserve was commended for its effort in ensuring that the Trust’s team were fully-involved in the detailing of the project, and the manner in which information was presented so that it could be easily understood by all concerned. Highly-impressed with Interserve’s performance, the Trust extended the partnership to deliver further schemes.
“Delivering the scheme early meant an additional 7,000 patients could be treated. Some 8,000 extra clinical procedures were carried out and waiting lists fell more than the expected rate.” Colin Cadwallader, Director of Estates and Facilities, Leighton Hospital.
Paul Scarisbrick, AEDAS Architects, commented on the development of the design around patient flow and that the clinical waiting area was the hub of the development. “It is flooded with natural light and ventilation and is a relaxed and non-clinical environment.”
