Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

The hospital has been designed to provide a modern approach to care, focusing on the patient’s needs during their stay.

When an emergency arises, seeing the right specialist can greatly improve a patient’s survival rate. The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust set an ambitious goal as part of a £200million investment to improve healthcare for people in Northumberland and North Tyneside – by creating a hospital that will provide on-site emergency care consultants 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is the first purpose-built hospital of its kind offering this level of medical cover in England.

DESIGN AND VISION

DESIGN AND VISION
DESIGN AND VISION

The new model at Northumbria is in line with the vision outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View to develop networks of linked hospitals that ensure patients with the most serious needs get to specialist emergency centres, and that hospital patients always have access to services. The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invested £75million to build the new state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital with a further £15million invested in new equipment, roads and infrastructure.

Most of the 282 beds will have single en-suite rooms, facilitating the management of patients with mixed dependency factors and will reduce the risk of the spread of infection. Upon completion the hospital will serve the 500,000 people of North Tyneside and Northumberland.

CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION

The building consists of a two/ three-storey in-situ free-form concrete frame structure, typically faced in render. The new 30,000m2 building will provide Inpatients wards, Accident & Emergency Care, Operating theatres, Critical Care, Maternity and Paediatricians, Radiology, MRI and X-ray, Pharmacy, Mortuary and Pathology.

Working for their client Farpod, EOS custom manufactured 20,000m2 of steel structural systems and pods for the hospital – a value of £350,000. EOS were appointed to work on this project due to the quality of the product – offering a versatile building system and enabling rapid construction whilst providing a lightweight solution with high strength.