Gilling Dod has just completed another successful year. This practice of Architects and Interior Designers has in more recent times begun to widen its geographic scope, with projects being undertaken from London to North Cumbria and Northern Ireland, and the work that is won these days is due to the innovative forward thinking nature of the present team.
One of these projects is the Surgical Unit at Blackpool’s Victoria Hospital. The new £39.9million unit is phase 6 of Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s Site Wide Development Plan and is designed to provide a centralised Surgical Unit, bringing on line 10 state of the art operating theatres in one purpose built unit. This contract was won under the NHS P21 Framework with Laing O’Rourke and complements the Lancashire Cardiac Centre, completed in 2005 again with Laing O’Rourke. Seven of the new operating theatres occupy the second floor, with the three day case theatres on the ground floor. The second floor is occupied by in- patient beds, with a high level of these being single bedrooms with en-suite facilities.
At the same time as starting work on the Surgical Unit, Gilling Dod and Laing O’Rourke began work on the £8million Women’s and Children’s Unit. The new Women and Children’s Unit brings Paediatric and Maternity (pre and post natal) services together for the first time on this site. The new unit now incorporates Paediatric Outpatient Services, Special Care Baby Unit, Delivery Suite and a Transitional Care Unit. As part of the existing unit had to be demolished, work was carried out in three phases in order to allow the existing facility to remain operational throughout the construction period. The Women and Children’s Unit was completed in 2010 and the Surgical Unit is scheduled for completion in June 2011.
Another key project, again under P21 was the £32 million Women’s and New Born Unit at Burnley Hospital. The ground floor of this new facility includes Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Special Care/
High Dependency Units on the ground floor. The first floor has five Obs & Gynae Theatres, together with 35 mid wife led delivery beds. All are single bedrooms and Gilling Dod’s Interior Design Department led the way in the detailing of all these rooms, which were successfully designed to provide a truly domestic ambience.
According to Sean Kember, Director, “Gilling Dod Architects have worked alongside a number of PSCP’s under the P21 Framework in both the Acute and Mental Health Sectors from the inception of the Framework in 2003. It is this wide range of experience across all sectors of Healthcare Design that we are looking to expand upon within the new P21+ Framework. It has been our experience under the previous Framework, that through developing close working relationships with Trusts’ and PSCP’s we have developed a true collaborative approach, enabling us to deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients. We are now working nationally, both in the P21+ Framework and with a number of Private Healthcare Providers.”
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