Working for ACM, ModuleCo (formerly PKL Healthcare) designed and built a new 2-storey modular neurosurgery ward at Alder Hey Hospital – built under ProCure 21 using alternative finance, and includes two theatres and a five-bed high-dependency unit.
The trust had a need for the new service but had no capital to fund it. The answer to this was a £6.5m managed and service facility, paid through the new revenue stream and utilising modular buildings provided by ModuleCo. Modular buildings are classed as temporary, therefore attracting no capital charges.
The building at Alder Hey is of the highest quality and is natural in appearance and it is a great example of the changing perceptions of modular buildings and off-site construction. It is robust and has a design life warranty of 60 years.
27 April 2006
New Emergency Assessment Unit opens its doors
Staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital have been putting the finishing touches to the new Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU), and from this week are welcoming the first patients to the new facilities.
The EAU has come a long way since September last year when the 68 modular units or 'building blocks' provided by ModuleCo that made up the unit were dropped into place. Over the last six months PKL Healthcare's building work has continued inside the unit to make it ready to open its doors to its first patients.
The unit will change the way emergency care is organised in the hospital. It will provide one 'front door' for emergencies instead of the current two - the Accident and Emergency department and the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), which are situated at opposite ends of the hospital.
Patients will be assessed on arrival in the Emergency Department (ED) adjacent to the EAU by an integrated multi-professional team including doctors, nurses and other staff who will make early decisions about treatment and care. This will enable the team to decide whether patients can be discharged, managed within the EAU or need a specialist opinion or possible admission to the main hospital.
The unit will feature medical and surgical short-stay wards and an adult Clinical Decision Unit and a Children's Observation Unit, improved access to radiology facilities and rapid pathology testing, plus rapid access clinic facilities for emergency patients.
The Clinical Decision Unit, an area for observation or treatment and further clinical decision-making, is already open to patients. Over the next few weeks the other areas of the EAU will become occupied and will be up and running. The official opening will take place in June.
The EAU has come a long way since September last year when the 68 modular units or 'building blocks' provided by ModuleCo that made up the unit were dropped into place. Over the last six months PKL Healthcare's building work has continued inside the unit to make it ready to open its doors to its first patients.
The unit will change the way emergency care is organised in the hospital. It will provide one 'front door' for emergencies instead of the current two - the Accident and Emergency department and the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), which are situated at opposite ends of the hospital.
Patients will be assessed on arrival in the Emergency Department (ED) adjacent to the EAU by an integrated multi-professional team including doctors, nurses and other staff who will make early decisions about treatment and care. This will enable the team to decide whether patients can be discharged, managed within the EAU or need a specialist opinion or possible admission to the main hospital.
The unit will feature medical and surgical short-stay wards and an adult Clinical Decision Unit and a Children's Observation Unit, improved access to radiology facilities and rapid pathology testing, plus rapid access clinic facilities for emergency patients.
The Clinical Decision Unit, an area for observation or treatment and further clinical decision-making, is already open to patients. Over the next few weeks the other areas of the EAU will become occupied and will be up and running. The official opening will take place in June.
26 April 2006
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust - Birmingham Heartland Hospital, Birmingham
ModuleCo (formerly PKL Healthcare) designed and built the UK’s first modular diagnostic imaging suite. The sophisticated facility for a radiology department was constructed to permanent building standards but with the benefits of off-site construction.
The 20-week Programme procured on a 10-year operating lease, features a two-storey building with a pitched roof and brick slip cladding. It incorporates RF enclosure, magnetic and lead shielding protection, concrete bases to bear the weight of the scanners.
"PKL Healthcare provided an innovative solution to the Trust’s requirements to house two MR scanners and one CT scanner within a very tight timescale. The new building has blended well with it’s surroundings and we look forward to a partnership with PKL to ensure that the high specifications required for state of the art Diagnostic Imaging Facilities are maintained and further developed in the future"
Lowri Morus, Clinical Director
The 20-week Programme procured on a 10-year operating lease, features a two-storey building with a pitched roof and brick slip cladding. It incorporates RF enclosure, magnetic and lead shielding protection, concrete bases to bear the weight of the scanners.
"PKL Healthcare provided an innovative solution to the Trust’s requirements to house two MR scanners and one CT scanner within a very tight timescale. The new building has blended well with it’s surroundings and we look forward to a partnership with PKL to ensure that the high specifications required for state of the art Diagnostic Imaging Facilities are maintained and further developed in the future"
Lowri Morus, Clinical Director
25 April 2006
New PKL Healthcare unit helps waiting times fall in Swansea
A new £5.2million purpose-built day surgery unit at Singleton Hospital is helping to speed up treatment times for patients in Swansea and bring down long waiting times Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons said today (March 9th).
The new unit, supplied by ModuleCo, which was officially opened today, is open 12 hours a day, five days a week and provides an additional 80 to 100 operations each week.
Built with off-site construction methods, the facility incorporates two operating theatres, four 6-bed recovery units, four assessment rooms, ancillary and staff facilities.
Dr Gibbons said: "Since the day surgery unit opened at Singleton last October patients have seen a huge difference in the way they are treated. The Welsh Assembly Government has given a commitment to reduce waiting times across Wales and by providing £1.8m towards this unit patients in Swansea are seeing this happen.
"One of this year's targets for the NHS is to increase the number of procedures carried out in a day theatre setting so that patients don't have to spend any longer than is necessary in hospital. With this facility patients coming in for cataract surgery spend around two hours at the unit from admission to discharge. This is a huge improvement.
"The unit has also had an impact on general elective waiting times. With patients being treated in the new day unit, main theatre space has been freed up increasing the capacity of the Trust to carry out operations.
"Thanks to the hard work of NHS staff in Swansea there have been some dramatic falls in long waiting times over the last year. With the opening of the new day surgery unit at Singleton I am sure unit these falls will continue."
The new unit, supplied by ModuleCo, which was officially opened today, is open 12 hours a day, five days a week and provides an additional 80 to 100 operations each week.
Built with off-site construction methods, the facility incorporates two operating theatres, four 6-bed recovery units, four assessment rooms, ancillary and staff facilities.
Dr Gibbons said: "Since the day surgery unit opened at Singleton last October patients have seen a huge difference in the way they are treated. The Welsh Assembly Government has given a commitment to reduce waiting times across Wales and by providing £1.8m towards this unit patients in Swansea are seeing this happen.
"One of this year's targets for the NHS is to increase the number of procedures carried out in a day theatre setting so that patients don't have to spend any longer than is necessary in hospital. With this facility patients coming in for cataract surgery spend around two hours at the unit from admission to discharge. This is a huge improvement.
"The unit has also had an impact on general elective waiting times. With patients being treated in the new day unit, main theatre space has been freed up increasing the capacity of the Trust to carry out operations.
"Thanks to the hard work of NHS staff in Swansea there have been some dramatic falls in long waiting times over the last year. With the opening of the new day surgery unit at Singleton I am sure unit these falls will continue."
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