Emergency Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead UK
Sector:
Acute
Client:
Gateshead Health NHS
Foundation Trust
Role:
Consultant Architect
Value:
£30m
Status:
Ongoing commission
Medical Architecture were commissioned to undertake architectural design and health planning duties to Full Business Case with Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The brief was to develop a state-of-the-art building for emergency services, medical & surgical assessment and short stay ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Design principles are based on a patient centred model of care, to incorporate standardised flexible and modular treatment and observation room clusters to ensure optimum efficiency.
The company’s response reflects lean thinking through careful analysis of the project brief, grasp of time management and application of multi-functional design. The approach is driven by close analysis of process, derived originally from Nuffield pattern of movement studies, end user workshops at the hospital, facilitated by Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle.
The project incorporates lean principles into management, workflows and logistics to deliver improved safety and clinical outcomes, reduced waiting times, improved capacity, improved workforce, energy and logistical efficiency and a reduced carbon footprint. All of this is aimed to provide an improved staff, visitor and patient experience.
