The new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, is the largest capital scheme ever undertaken by the Trust at a cost of £47m investment. The new centre, with an integrated critical care floor for intensive care and coronary care, almost doubles the current space. The investment includes upgrades to the site infrastructure.
With 3,120 square metres of space on each floor, the centre will be a third larger than the existing facilities.
We are looking to move patients across in late September 2024.
It is the same number of beds numbers, but we will have a new healthcare model which means patients from minor to complex needs can be looked after in the unit by one team of healthcare professionals working together, who will see more patients as quickly and safely as possible.
To provide power to the Urgent and Emergency Care Centre and to give resilience and future capacity to the rest of the site, we have upgraded the high voltage and low voltage electrical services as part of this project. Additionally, as part of the build we have installed two standby generators which, if needed, can generate 2.2 megavolts amperes (mva) - which is equivalent to powering 5,000 homes!
The building is fully ventilated by a large number of separate systems. This allows us to temperature control the whole building in zones or individual rooms i.e. Critical Care rooms.
The building is mechanically and operationally designed to enable us to work in two separate clinical streams (hot and cold). This is supported by the ventilation air flow streams that will extract contaminated air and replace it with filtered clean air ensuring there is high- and low-pressure areas to force the air to go in the right direction.
We welcome feedback on our new hospital programme. To get in touch with any questions or feedback, please email yhs-tr.communications.team@nhs.net.