Please see below a Press Release from the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust website:
The new short stay surgery unit at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt was named the Menzies Unit on Friday 23rd October, by the daughter of John C Menzies. The Unit was named after the hospital’s Secretary Superintendent (nowadays called a Chief Executive) from 1928 to 1956, John Menzies OBE. His daughter, Mrs Pat Anderson and grandson Richard, travelled from the Reading area to perform the official opening ceremony.
John C Menzies is a well remembered an honoured name at the Orthopaedic hospital. His administrative genius was particularly displayed after the hospital fire of 1948, when he quickly instigated the funding of the hospital rebuilding programme. He died in 1990 at over 90 years of age. The name Menzies was given to a former ward and the sign from then will be transferred to the new Unit. John Menzies’ portrait painting now proudly hangs in the reception area of the new Menzies Unit, beside the opening plaque.
Wendy Farrington Chadd, Trust Chief Executive thanked those involved, saying: “This is a superb facility which will improve quality of care for patients. The Unit comprises three operating theatres, which means that we now have an additional two theatres, as one replaced the old day case theatre. It was constructed within a very short timeframe and our thanks must go to the specialist contractors PKL Healthcare, the project managers from Capital Symonds and our own staff, in particular Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Sumeeta Conry and Unit manager Ande Joseph. It was a true partnership approach which has delivered a fantastic result on schedule.
We are honoured that the Menzies family have made the journey and delighted that, through the generations, they have remained friends of the hospital.”
07 December 2009
10 November 2009
ModuleCo and PKL Healthcare Deliver Another Fast-track Ward
ModuleCo and PKL Healthcare are currently building a 56-bed Modular Ward for Lincoln County Hospital.
The local newspaper, the Lincolnshire Echo, ran this news story on the project:
"Two new wards comprising 56 beds in total are to be built at Lincoln County Hospital – made from 60 pre-fabricated sections transported to the city on lorries.
The new wards, costing £7.8m, are set to open early next February.
A factory in Yorkshire is currently making the steel frame and plasterboard wards in blocks.
The plan is to transport each section by road to Lincoln in early December – subject to planning permission – where the pieces will be slotted into place like blocks in a giant Lego set.
The two-storey ward buildings will be have brick cladding on the exterior.
Several shipments should be brought in daily between December 4 and 20, however, some of the earlier loads may have to travel after the Lincoln Christmas Market weekend.
Jonathan Brindley, spokesman for ModuleCo and PKL Healthcare, the companies involved in the scheme, said the construction method was a quick and efficient way of putting up new buildings.
"We completed a similar scheme at Bradford Royal Infirmary last year and we specialise in such hospital buildings," he said.
"In Lincoln, the hospital trust placed the order in September and the wards should be welcoming the first patients in February, which is fantastic," he said.
"The short turn around time from ordering to opening is a major advantage to hospitals who need to close wards and move patients for deep cleaning of wards as well as providing extra bed space.""
The original storey can be found here:
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/New-Lincoln-hospital-ward-built-like-Lego/article-1405540-detail/article.html
The local newspaper, the Lincolnshire Echo, ran this news story on the project:
"Two new wards comprising 56 beds in total are to be built at Lincoln County Hospital – made from 60 pre-fabricated sections transported to the city on lorries.
The new wards, costing £7.8m, are set to open early next February.
A factory in Yorkshire is currently making the steel frame and plasterboard wards in blocks.
The plan is to transport each section by road to Lincoln in early December – subject to planning permission – where the pieces will be slotted into place like blocks in a giant Lego set.
The two-storey ward buildings will be have brick cladding on the exterior.
Several shipments should be brought in daily between December 4 and 20, however, some of the earlier loads may have to travel after the Lincoln Christmas Market weekend.
Jonathan Brindley, spokesman for ModuleCo and PKL Healthcare, the companies involved in the scheme, said the construction method was a quick and efficient way of putting up new buildings.
"We completed a similar scheme at Bradford Royal Infirmary last year and we specialise in such hospital buildings," he said.
"In Lincoln, the hospital trust placed the order in September and the wards should be welcoming the first patients in February, which is fantastic," he said.
"The short turn around time from ordering to opening is a major advantage to hospitals who need to close wards and move patients for deep cleaning of wards as well as providing extra bed space.""
The original storey can be found here:
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/New-Lincoln-hospital-ward-built-like-Lego/article-1405540-detail/article.html
05 May 2009
ModuleCo Healthcare Facilities - Now Available For Hire
Temporary healthcare facilities to permanent standards
ModuleCo specialist modular healthcare facilities are available for hire through their strategic partner PKL Healthcare Ltd.
As the market leader in the hire of high specification healthcare buildings PKL Healthcare's experienced teams of design and build experts can provide a facility to meet your specific requirements, delivering rapid healthcare hire projects with excellent long run support.
PKL Healthcare's hire fleet is built to permanent standards, providing clients with 25-year design life buildings that meet the highest standards in infection control. This allows hospitals to continue the same high standard of patient care without compromise, as well as giving our clients the flexibility to extend their hire for as long as they need without deterioration.
This is only possible thanks to ModuleCo's use of sustainable, best practice off-site design and build techniques, allowing us to relocate your facility at the end of the hire and recycle the materials. This ensures that ModuleCo healthcare buildings have a remarkably low environmental impact despite their permanent specification.
PKL Healthcare have hired more single operating theatres than any other UK firm, delivering to a huge range of specialist disciplines such as orthopaedic surgery. With a standard configuration designed to maximise space and efficiency, with flush fitted M&E and environmental controls and pre-engineered purpose built plant rooms.
Critical facilties, rapid programmes
Hiring healthcare facilities through PKL Healthcare is the fastest possible way to get fully compliant critical healthcare facilities on to your site and operational within weeks of approval - not years.
For truly urgent requirements and disaster response scenarios PKL Healthcare can deliver healthcare facilities from our existing fleet of healthcare buildings in just a few weeks, giving you high quality additional patient ready hospital capacity in extremely tight time frames.
ModuleCo specialist modular healthcare facilities are available for hire through their strategic partner PKL Healthcare Ltd.
PKL Healthcare is the UK market leader in the hire of operating theatres
As the market leader in the hire of high specification healthcare buildings PKL Healthcare's experienced teams of design and build experts can provide a facility to meet your specific requirements, delivering rapid healthcare hire projects with excellent long run support.
PKL Healthcare's hire fleet is built to permanent standards, providing clients with 25-year design life buildings that meet the highest standards in infection control. This allows hospitals to continue the same high standard of patient care without compromise, as well as giving our clients the flexibility to extend their hire for as long as they need without deterioration.
Modular MRI facility - PKL Healthcare provide a huge range of medical buildings for hire
This is only possible thanks to ModuleCo's use of sustainable, best practice off-site design and build techniques, allowing us to relocate your facility at the end of the hire and recycle the materials. This ensures that ModuleCo healthcare buildings have a remarkably low environmental impact despite their permanent specification.
A modular mortuary - Built by ModuleCo and hired by PKL Healthcare
PKL Healthcare have hired more single operating theatres than any other UK firm, delivering to a huge range of specialist disciplines such as orthopaedic surgery. With a standard configuration designed to maximise space and efficiency, with flush fitted M&E and environmental controls and pre-engineered purpose built plant rooms.
Modular orthopaedic operating theatre - PKL Healthcare can even hire complex healthcare buildings with features such as laminar flow canopies
Critical facilties, rapid programmes
Hiring healthcare facilities through PKL Healthcare is the fastest possible way to get fully compliant critical healthcare facilities on to your site and operational within weeks of approval - not years.
Off site construction - modular healthcare buildings arrive on site 80% complete
PKL Healthcare hire facilities can be made ready for immediate delivery taking as little as 10 weeks from order to patient ready facility. PKL Healthcare's project managers are experienced at complex deliveries, locating temporary facilities on hospital rooftops, in courtyards and as standard extensions, meaning that we can provide high quality healthcare facilities in very congested hospital sites.Modular wards for short or long term hires
For truly urgent requirements and disaster response scenarios PKL Healthcare can deliver healthcare facilities from our existing fleet of healthcare buildings in just a few weeks, giving you high quality additional patient ready hospital capacity in extremely tight time frames.
Birthing room - manufactured using off site construction
Whether you are looking to refurbish your hospital, reduce patient waiting times or drive a new flagship development PKL Healthcare can design and provide high quality healthcare facilities at fantastic hire rates.
20 April 2009
Installation of a twin operating theatre into a busy central London hospital courtyard
Finding space for new facilities on crowded hospital estates can be incredibly difficult, with hard to access courtyards sometimes being the only available land. ModuleCo specialise in delivering into complex locations, using off-site construction to utilise underused locations such as courtyards and rooftops.
The installation of the twin operating theatre into Guys and St Thomas Hospital was a near was a real challenge. The hospital itself is located in the heavily congested heart of London directly opposite the houses of Parliament, and the courtyard site was surrounded on all sides by buildings from 7 to 13 storeys high.
The operating theatre being craned high over an intervening 7 storey building
Thanks to a dedicated, safety conscious delivery team and a well-organised hospital Trust all modules were craned into place quickly and efficiently without compromising on health and safety.
In just 2 days the entire twin orthopaedic operating theatre was craned and installed into the courtyard at Guys and St Thomas Hospital, providing fast-track healthcare facilities at the very heart of the hospital’s campus.
The installation of the twin operating theatre into Guys and St Thomas Hospital was a near was a real challenge. The hospital itself is located in the heavily congested heart of London directly opposite the houses of Parliament, and the courtyard site was surrounded on all sides by buildings from 7 to 13 storeys high.
With no vehicle access, traditional construction methods requiring lots of heavy vehicles on-site were ruled out. By manufacturing 80% of the twin operating theatre off-site in controlled factory conditions before craning it into place as 6 separate modules ModuleCo were able to bypass these problems, delivering the facility with the minimum possible disruption to the hospital site.
The Modules are protected for transport and delivered by flat bed lorry - 80% of fitout has already been completed in controled factory conditions.
A cranes lifts the modules directly from the lorry to the courtyard site
The operating theatre being craned high over an intervening 7 storey building
The modular operating theatre is lowered into the courtyard
The twin operating theatre is delivered into the restricted courtyard before being installed
The ModuleCo modular operating theatre - Complete
The delivery was meticulously planned by ModuleCo's experienced project team to minimise the time craning was taking place on site, ensuring:- The smallest possible cost to the client
- The least disruption to staff and patients
- The biggest reduction in health and safety risks
Thanks to a dedicated, safety conscious delivery team and a well-organised hospital Trust all modules were craned into place quickly and efficiently without compromising on health and safety.
In just 2 days the entire twin orthopaedic operating theatre was craned and installed into the courtyard at Guys and St Thomas Hospital, providing fast-track healthcare facilities at the very heart of the hospital’s campus.
06 February 2009
56-bed Ward at Bradford Royal Infirmary
In December 2008, ModuleCo completed an “ultra fast-track” 56-bed ward facility at Bradford Royal Infirmary through it's strategic partner PKL Healthcare.
In July of 2008 Bradford Royal Infirmary embarked on an ambitious scheme to provide a new ward facility to be up and running before Christmas, ready to cope with the winter influx of patients.
After a month long competition exercise involving two of the suppliers, it was PKL Healthcare who could commit to the tight programme deadline. An order was placed by the Trust for the 2,071m2, 2-storey ward facility on 14th August 2008.
The ward facility included a mixture of single en-suite and 4-bedded wards and included the associated ancillary and support areas.
The design of the ward determined a module size of 3.8m wide by 17.0m long, which were the largest built by ModuleCo to date. Whilst the units were being built and fitted out in the factory, the enabling contractor completed the groundworks and built thIn December 2008, ModuleCo completed an “ultra fast-track” 56-bed ward facility at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
In July of 2008 Bradford Royal Infirmary embarked on an ambitious scheme to provide a new ward facility to be up and running before Christmas, ready to cope with the winter influx of patients.
After a month long competition exercise involving two of the suppliers, it was ModuleCo who could commit to the tight programme deadline. An order was placed by the Trust for the 2,071m2, 2-storey ward facility on 14th August 2008.
The ward facility included a mixture of single en-suite and 4-bedded wards and included the associated ancillary and support areas.
The design of the ward determined a module size of 3.8m wide by 17.0m long, which were the largest built by ModuleCo to date. Whilst the units were being built and fitted out in the factory, the enabling contractor completed the groundworks and built the steel podium required to position the ward at 1st and 2nd floor levels.
The units were delivered and installed over a week in early November and the remaining 7 weeks in the programme used to complete the installation on site.
The facility was successfully handed over to the client on 22nd December 2008, on time and on budget after just an 18-week construction programme.
In July of 2008 Bradford Royal Infirmary embarked on an ambitious scheme to provide a new ward facility to be up and running before Christmas, ready to cope with the winter influx of patients.
After a month long competition exercise involving two of the suppliers, it was PKL Healthcare who could commit to the tight programme deadline. An order was placed by the Trust for the 2,071m2, 2-storey ward facility on 14th August 2008.
The ward facility included a mixture of single en-suite and 4-bedded wards and included the associated ancillary and support areas.
The design of the ward determined a module size of 3.8m wide by 17.0m long, which were the largest built by ModuleCo to date. Whilst the units were being built and fitted out in the factory, the enabling contractor completed the groundworks and built thIn December 2008, ModuleCo completed an “ultra fast-track” 56-bed ward facility at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
In July of 2008 Bradford Royal Infirmary embarked on an ambitious scheme to provide a new ward facility to be up and running before Christmas, ready to cope with the winter influx of patients.
After a month long competition exercise involving two of the suppliers, it was ModuleCo who could commit to the tight programme deadline. An order was placed by the Trust for the 2,071m2, 2-storey ward facility on 14th August 2008.
The ward facility included a mixture of single en-suite and 4-bedded wards and included the associated ancillary and support areas.
The design of the ward determined a module size of 3.8m wide by 17.0m long, which were the largest built by ModuleCo to date. Whilst the units were being built and fitted out in the factory, the enabling contractor completed the groundworks and built the steel podium required to position the ward at 1st and 2nd floor levels.
The units were delivered and installed over a week in early November and the remaining 7 weeks in the programme used to complete the installation on site.
The facility was successfully handed over to the client on 22nd December 2008, on time and on budget after just an 18-week construction programme.
27 January 2009
PKL Healthcare Operating Theatre in Central London
Over the weekend, PKL Healthcare installed a new Modular facility at St Thomas Hospital in central London. The new development includes two complete Operating Theatre suites which will be ready to use in just 4 weeks!
The BBC regional news were there to report on the installation. The BBC artical can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7848832.stm
The BBC regional news were there to report on the installation. The BBC artical can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7848832.stm
New Healthcare Hire Website
PKL Healthcare have a new website http://www.healthcarehire.co.uk.
PKL Healthcare can provide operating theatres, diagnostic imaging suites, wards, containment laboratories and aseptic suites for the tightest locations on hospital sites where space is at a premium. The facilities can be located almost anywhere, from car parks and courtyards to roof tops and gantries.
If you have a potential need for a short, medium or long term healthcare building, call PKL Healthcare to arrange an initial meeting to discuss your requirements. They have developed a fleet of temporary healthcare buildings with standard layouts, including temporary operating theatre suites, wards, recovery units and clinical support areas.
PKL Healthcare can provide operating theatres, diagnostic imaging suites, wards, containment laboratories and aseptic suites for the tightest locations on hospital sites where space is at a premium. The facilities can be located almost anywhere, from car parks and courtyards to roof tops and gantries.
If you have a potential need for a short, medium or long term healthcare building, call PKL Healthcare to arrange an initial meeting to discuss your requirements. They have developed a fleet of temporary healthcare buildings with standard layouts, including temporary operating theatre suites, wards, recovery units and clinical support areas.
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