Newham Hospital Adult Critical Care Unit and Ward Ground Breaking

The Fleet team will attend a ground breaking ceremony with local MPS and dignitaries at Newham University Hospital, part of the Barts Trust, in October to mark the start of enabling works for a new Adult Critical Care Unit designed with Health Spaces, QED Structures and DSSR MEP.

The new facility will provide 14 ICU style beds including 4 Isolation Rooms.  The ground floor ward comprises 26 inpatient beds, including 10 single en-suite ‘side rooms’.

‘A funky seaside stay with impeccable art credentials’ Fort Road Hotel in The Times

Published 03.09.22

The recently opened Fort Road Hotel in Margate, designed by Fleet Architects with Clients Matthew Slotover of Frieze, Artist Tom Gidley and Gabriel Chipperfield, the son of designer David Chipperfield, has been receiving glowing reviews across national and international press.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fort-road-hotel-margate-review-a-funky-seaside-stay-with-impeccable-art-credentials-pg9stcmsn

Image Credit – Fort Road Hotel, Tom Gidley

James Paget Decant Ward Planning Permission Recieved

The Fleet Architects Team working with Client Health Spaces, a multi-disciplinary team from WSP and assisted by Bidwell’s has successfully achieved planning permission for a new ward block at James Paget University Hospital in Great Yarmouth.

The project is keystone to the urgent Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) works at the Hospital but has been employed by te clinical team to explore emerging practices in ward design to apply to the New Hospital Programme redesign of the host building.

Most critical to this is the design of the single bed wards, often referred to as side rooms, which make up 20 of the 28 rooms.  The design process has involved lengthy and intensive clinical engagement which is covered in a Health Spaces Hosted Webinar “The Journey Towards Single Inpatient Rooms” (https://health-spaces.com/news/single-patient-rooms/).

The new facility is being constructed using offsite volumetric systems and will open in early 2023.

New Starter : Daniel Collinson

Daniel Collinson has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 2 Architectural Designer having completed his studies at the Manchester School of Architecture. Daniel has previously worked on a series of refurbishment project and has a keen interest in the re-use and the adaptability of existing buildings to tackle the carbon footprint on the construction industry. Daniel is passionate about the marine environment and has conducted research for his thesis project on forward thinking construction methods and materials to develop an architectural proposition to recycle ocean plastic and waste.

Daniel was born in Newcastle but has spent much of his life in Asia before moving to the United Kingdom for his architectural education. Daniel hopes to gain valuable experience and skills at Fleet and has ambitions to become a fully qualified architect.

Health On the High Street – Kettering

Following the success of the Well Placed Hospital essay, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson Economics Prize, Fleet have been working with the Health Spaces team to explore the benefits to the acute system, the town and the patients of relocating a range of outpatients and community services within highly accessible town centre locations.

Jaime Bishop, Fleet Director writes on the topic via LinkedIn:

“The grim underlying picture is of an enduring and enormous vacant real estate capacity, often in the areas most in need of regeneration.  In our 2021 shortlisted Wolfson Economics Prize essay ‘The Well Place Hospital’ Fleet Architects Ltd working with MAAP Architects demonstrated the opportunity and mutual benefits to the NHS, Patients, Population, Planners and Place of greater reintegration of the Health and Social Care Infrastructure. Our essay looked at a range of small city and market town scale locations to test the viability of our hypothesis.

Reflecting on the growing interest in town centre regeneration our sense is that, without due commitment to services on the high street, and particular public services, there is a real risk that any rebirth of high streets tell a rather limited story biased towards affluence, the artisanal and the most advantaged of metropolaise. Perhaps those also controlling the message.

The NHS has a long history of investment in new building systems and pattern books – and eyes will always be turned by a catchy new idea or sketch – but not since the workhouse infirmaries, flirtations with poly-clinics aside, has there been real interest and need to explore urban opportunity – including reuse of existing buildings and the carbon they embody.

We have some really exciting Health on the High Street™ projects coming through in the next few months to add proof of concept – from Out-Patient decants to office blocks or shipping centres to CDCs, community Mental Health access and enhanced Primary Care. We are particularly excited about the shopping centre – an idea we’ve been kicking around for years since first referring to the typology when designing an Ambulatory Care Centre in the 2000s.

The economic outlook is particularly grim at the moment but there are also opportunities to be grasped.”

Pre Application for AFU at Lancaster Royal for Infirmary for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

Working with Health Spaces, The Fleet team have designed a new Acute Frailty Unit and base for the Fraility Intervention Team at Lancaster Royal Infirmary for The Morecambe Bay Hospital Trust.

The new proposal will be achieved with a mix of refurbishment and volumetric extension and is due to be submitted for planning in Autumn 2022.

Webinar – The Journey Towards Single Inpatient Rooms

(https://health-spaces.com/news/single-patient-rooms/).

Single patient rooms webinar | 28th July 10.30am – 11.30am

What are the benefits of a single room hospital? Should hospitals provide all patients with single rooms? What are the implications for single patient rooms under the New Hospital Programme (NHP) guidance? How can the design of multi-bed bays be evolved to improve patient and staff experience?

Research has shown that single rooms will increase patients’ privacy, dignity and confidentiality, in addition to giving patients more control over their immediate environment and consequently helping to aid the healing process. Yet the journey taken in designing new hospital ward layouts – balancing cost, space and a Trust’s bespoke requirements – can be challenging.

Join Jaime Bishop, Feet Director and Co-Chair of Architects for Health, Warren Edwards, Project Director at Health Spaces, Paula Miller, Chief Nursing Projects Officer (New Hospital Team) and Diane Goodwin, Operations Director for the New Hospital Programme, as the team highlights the journey taken by James Paget University Hospital as the Trust develops a new 28 bedded decant ward.

Lister Hospital – New Hybrid Vascular Theatre

Fleet Architects working with Health Spaces have been appointed to design a new Hybrid Vascular Theatre for the Lister Hospital site in Stevenage.

Theatre Suite will allow surgery and state of the art imaging to be undertaken at the same time in a single operating theatre. This means a team of vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists can work together to carry out endovascular procedures, treating problems with blood vessels without the need for open surgery.

Patients with major trauma will also benefit from the new theatre by allowing those with multiple injuries to undergo both endovascular and open surgery in the same place.

The Theatres will integrate an Ultra Clean System previous unused in the UK integrated with a Philips ceiling mounted C-Arm.

New Starter – Maees Hadi 

Maees Hadi has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 2 Architectural Designer having previously worked with social housing specialist Henly Halebrown and studied at the Royal College of Art.

Maees’  interest in architecture is influenced by research and spatial design that can guide us to develop better spaces for people. Maees wants to develop her skills in socially-led projects and be more involved in work that serves the community. Maees Hadi is an architectural designer, researcher and a filmmaker. She has a multidisciplinary practice and engages in research topics such as political identity, representation and the migrant subject which has developed from her own studies and experiences. Maees was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1993, however grew up in Sweden and later moved to London where she started her academic studies and later work. Maees holds an MA architectural degree from the Royal College of Art, London and a History of Art certificate from Birkbeck University, London.

Maees work has recently been shown in Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021 and screened in Christies and at the Design Film Festival by curating contemporary design in collaboration with the Design Museum in London.

Re-imagining Short Breaks and Respite Care for Young People

Working closely with the Northants Healthcare NHS Trust, the Fleet team have reviewed the practical and emotive opportunities to improve the environment to house a vulnerable cohort for  short respite breaks.  The service users include disabled children and young people with disabilities including either a diagnosis of autism, complex health needs and/or complex behaviour.

The proposals sought to introduce more safety measures to the bedrooms while de-institutionalising and bringing in opportunities to personalise the spaces for each of the circa 72 children and young people using the facility annually.

At the core of the proposals was the need to open up the living and dining spaces to more natural light and the extensive gardens while, critically, still maintaining the physical flexibility staff require to support the residents.