This largest capital scheme ever undertaken by YSTH, comprises the design and construction of a new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UECC) at Scarborough Hospital; it also includes essential site-wide infrastructure improvements.
IHP and its supply chain partners have been working with YSTH to deliver a new, two-storey facility combining and expanding the current emergency care offer. The new development will house assessment and treatment cubicles, a diagnostics zone, resuscitation zone, dedicated children’s waiting and treatment areas, and a 26-bed critical care unit where the most poorly patients can be cared for in one integrated clinical environment, rather than being moved around the hospital.
The project, progressing towards completion in summer, will offer significant operational benefits for YSTH and the Scarborough community, including:
- Enhanced working environment and welfare facilities, benefitting recruitment and staff retention;
- Improved environment for patients, staff and visitors, including access to green space on both levels;
- Better patient privacy and dignity with single room accommodation – also improving infection prevention rates, and dedicated relatives’ suite;
- Increased bed capacity, helping relieve pressure on beds elsewhere in the Trust;
- Dedicated sensory room for patients with special needs;
- Reduction in A&E waiting and ambulance turnaround times in line with Emergency Care Standards;
- Improved access for helicopters and patient transfers;
- Dedicated imaging zone providing greater scanning capacity;
- Specialist frailty services and a short stay ward, to reduce frequency and duration of inpatient admissions;
- Ability to separate patient flows for potential future pandemic or isolation requirements.
Three Winning Facts:
- A resounding One Team approach has been demonstrated throughout the project from inception.
- Four times a 100% score has been awarded by the Considerate Constructors Scheme monitor – during their independent site audit, to assess IHP’s application of its three key Code of Considerate Practice themes of Respecting the Community, Protecting the Environment, and Valuing the Workforce.
- Extensive stakeholder involvement in the design and social value embedded throughout delivery, has ensured the project on target to achieve its ultimate aims of providing a greatly improved urgent and emergency care offer to the community of Scarborough.
