100% Single bedroom hospital
to be built in South Wales
27 October 2008
Nightingale Associates is to design the second hospital to receive full business case approval under the Designed for Life: Building for Wales procurement framework, for Gwent NHS Trust.
The Assembly Government funding approval for the £90 million Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Hospital, which will be situated in Ystrad Mynach, South Wales, comes after the approval of the first ever hospital under the framework, the Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan in Ebbw Valley – also being designed by Nightingale Associates.
Both hospitals will also be the first in Wales to feature 100% single-bedroom accommodation, marking the start of a new chapter for the NHS.
Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr
The 276 bed Ysbyty Ystrad hospital will replace all existing hospitals in the Caerphilly borough and is expected to open to the public in Autumn 2011. Under the aims of the Designed for Life framework, which was introduced in July 2006 by the Welsh Assembly Government, the building will be designed to provide the Trust with value for money, greater certainty over cost and programme, and to allow for continuous improvement through collaborative working.
In 2006, Nightingale Associates were selected onto the framework as part of a successful Supply Chain Partner Organisation, BAM Construction. The practice will also be designing the 107 bed Aneurin Bevan Hospital, also for Gwent NHS Trust, under the framework.
“The Ysbyty Ystrad Hospital will be a very significant project, being the first fully single-bedroom hospital in Wales, and the first to be built under the Designed for Life framework.
“The Trust requires the design of the single bedrooms to enable the hospital to offer a very high level of care that will help reduce infections and ensure privacy and dignity for patients.”
Kieren Morgan, Health Development Director, Nightingale Associates
The hospital will be be arranged over four floors and will contain a large number of facilities, including; an Integrated Care Centre; Diagnostic and Treatment Centre; Integrated Therapies, including Palliative Care, Local Emergency Care and Short Stay beds; Maternity Facilities; Mental Health Services; and Non-Clinical Support.
The 75,000m2 site is also situated in a floodplain, so design proposals have been developed to ensure that the hospital remains in operation during any extreme flood event. The main hospital concourse will be located one floor above the flood plain with parking arranged on the lower ground level.
Patient and staff areas will be situated around a series of enclosed and semi-enclosed courtyards located at both lower ground and upper ground levels, in order to give the impression of a hospital set within the landscape, with no visible car parks.
“This development is an exciting step forward not just for us, but for the health care profession and patients on a wider level.”
Kieren Morgan, Health Development Director, Nightingale Associates
Work has already begun on site.
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