Opened in November 2024, North View is Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust’s flagship new mental health hospital located at the centre of the North Manchester General Hospital site in Crumpsall.
Purpose-built and co-developed, it delivers a state-of the-art therapeutic environment to support service user recovery and enable staff to deliver the highest quality of care.
North View provides a much-needed replacement for the former dormitory accommodation at Park House. It comprises 150 single bedrooms with private ensuite shower rooms. A variety of indoor activity areas, meeting rooms for family visiting, accessible gardens, spaces for therapeutic artwork, a gymnasium and café are also incorporated.
Service users are cared for in seven adult acute wards, one older adult ward, a purpose-built Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and a treatment suite which are designed to flex to meet changing needs.
North View forms a key part of the Trust’s vision to significantly improve health and wellbeing for local people over the next 10-15 years, while providing a catalyst for the redevelopment of the wider, 67-acre acute hospital campus. Funding, for which, is being sought through the New Hospital Programme.
Three Winning Facts:
- 1) Comprehensive Stakeholder Involvement
Service users, carers and staff have meaningfully contributed to every stage and every aspect of the design process, through extensive workshops, engagement packs shared with service users on wards and at home, and a full-size mock bedroom built in the Project Office enabling stakeholders to advise, inspect, test and feedback. - Design Quality:
From the outset of the project, the design ethos for North View has always been ‘More Than Just a Building’. This attitude focused attention on what users of the building (service users, staff and visitors) might feel and experience. With the resultant space prioritising service user comfort, dignity and recovery and staff satisfaction and wellbeing. - Innovative Construction Techniques:
Modern methods of construction and specialist healthcare building standards, alongside progressive stakeholder influence, have been employed to deliver an outstanding, future-proofed mental health hospital. The use of repeatable rooms, and other standardised components and processes, along with off-site modular construction techniques increased the efficiency of end-to-end project delivery.
