Scheme Design

The scheme improves the standard of patient accommodation.

General ward accommodation provides for approximately half of in patient beds being in single bedded rooms with en suite bathroom facilities. As well as being more acceptable to patients, this feature will support the reduction of Hospital Acquired Infection rates.
Public areas and corridors are more spacious, with increased natural light and good quality, contemporary finishes. Greater design detail has been focused on maintaining each patient’s privacy and dignity.
Staff will also benefit from the opportunity to work in a more pleasant environment. The SHIFT partners anticipate that a range of stakeholders will benefit from this initiative.
The two tower blocks adjacent to Eccles Old Road will be demolished in readiness for the creation of the main clinical block in the scheme.
The new main entrance can be accessed from the visitors’ car-park in the centre of the site, or via a pedestrian entrance off Eccles Old Road. This light and spacious atrium will provide a new focus to the hospital as well as acting as a central information / reception point from where all wards and departments can be accessed.
To the western side of the new clinical development are specialists in and outpatient facilities.
To the east of the development, the Emergency Village concept will be established by creating a new Emergency Department and integrated Emergency Admission Unit focused on early diagnosis, stabilisation and intervention.
Two new Radiology rooms will support this area in addition to existing facilities on site. The existing Emergency Department will be extended to create a Paediatric Observation and Assessment Unit.
On the floors above the Emergency Village will be more in-patients accommodation, linking up with existing theatres and Critical Care.
The Ladywell Building and Women’s and Neonates Building retain their current purpose, although the expansion of intermediate care and care at home services will modify the use of Ladywell to include specialist medicine, along with the Heart Care Unit and a new Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory.
Car parking pressures on the hospital site will be managed through adoption of a Green Transport Policy and establishment of a multi storey car park adjacent to the site-boundary facing onto the M602.
A new education and research block will support the integration of education, teaching and lecture facilities.
A range of smaller schemes and service modifications will be associated with these more significant developments.
The main demolition and construction programme is expected to complete in 2012.

Salford's Health Investment for Tomorrow

1. Hospital Redevelopment

Scheme Design