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Eye-catching new Maggie's Centre gets the green light

Work to start on Oldham Hospital extension

Parliamentarians back social care reform plan

Libeskind said visitors will be able to visually identify its presence from afar, as it will be designed to contrast with its more-clinical hospital surroundings, drawing in newcomers with an ‘approachable and undulating timber form’. He adds: “The facade’s folds and crevices optimise privacy, light, and shade to create a calm and peaceful interior space that offers patients moments of serenity. “To maximise the site’s potential, the footprint has been kept small at the ground level and the form expand...

The building will be located to the west of the existing main hospital and has been designed to help enhance patient wellbeing. This includes an internal void with landscaped courtyard and south and west-facing patient bedrooms. Externally, materials for the extension have been inspired by Oldham’s rich industrial mill heritage, with feature towers, vertical lines, and framed glazing. The landscape proposals are been designed to provide varying uses, including an informal seating area and café spillout s...

Integrating mental health and supported housing services across England has the potential to save the NHS more than £1billion, according to a new report. The report, commissioned by housing and support services provider, Look Ahead, outlines that if integrated mental health and supported housing systems currently used in parts of London and the South East were implemented across the rest of the country, approximately £950mi could be saved by the NHS. The document has received the backing of both Conse...

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Hospital revamp plan gathers pace

The Government has committed £54m to pave the way for the total redevelopment of the outdated North Manchester General Hospital site.

New healing gardens provide respite for patients and staff

And, by exposing patients to nature on a regular basis, the aim is to improve post-operative recovery times. “Sensory plants will be important, but the key aim is to incorporate movement into the planting with large swathes of mixed ornamental grasses and flowering perennials, also helping to keep maintenance to a minimum for the hospital,” said Smith. “A number of ornamental multi-stem trees have been selected to provide sculptural interest and help to provide privacy, as well as seasonal richness. ...

30-bed ward completed at Nuneaton hospital

Firstly, the building could be constructed while the foundations were being prepared, drastically reducing programme length. And manufacture was also not affected by site conditions like the weather, making the programme even more reliable. The building is comprised of 33 modules, including a unit to link the new wards to an existing building on site. Manufactured in Wernick’s factory in Port Talbot, the modules were transported to site by lorry, then craned into position and bolted together to form th...

Willmott Dixon Interiors delivers £2m refurb at Eastbourne hospital

Former maternity ward is revamped to provide additional bed space during COVID-19 pandemic

Flagship new care home for adults with complex needs

Exemplar Health Care, a provider of specialist nursing care for adults living with complex needs, has submitted a planning application to open a specialist care home in Wallasey in 2022. The new facility, to be located in the Alfred Road area, will be the company’s first home to open on the Wirral. If approved, it will support adults who need specialist nursing care and rehabilitation following a brain injury, spinal cord injury, or stroke, and those living with a complex physical disability or mental he...

Contractor appointed for £30m hospital development in Berwick

Local firm, Merit, to build new facility