The new Urgent and emergency care centre at Scarborough Hospital will be accepting it's first patients in September.
The £47m centre will almost double the amount of space available at the hospital.
Deputy medical director at the NHS Trust - Ed Smith - says the new facilities are impressive.
Across multiple floors, departments and wards, everything from the colours to the architecture has been designed with a purpose.
Jo Southwell, the project lead for the UECC said
“Nothing is accidentally where it is,”
“We’re just about to hand over the building to our clinical and operational staff to go live in September,”
While it is still classed as an active construction site, inside and outside, the building does not look far from completion and staff recently tested 57 “pathways” or simulations of patients coming in with different health issues.
Described as a “game-changer” for healthcare on the coast, the promise of brand new facilities has already helped to attract new medical staff as well as creating jobs in other roles including catering and cleaning.
Ed Smith says it's been a long time coming.
In addition to a new CT scanner and two new X-ray machines, the site comes with a secure room for highly infectious diseases and the whole building could be securely divided into two sections in the case of a wider outbreak, such as Covid-19.
However, services that previously moved to York, such as stroke services, will not come back as part of the new UECC.
There has also been a “huge focus” on environmental awareness and ensuring natural light, good energy efficiency in the building, and covering the roof with solar panels.
Ed Smith says the new facility has been designed to reduce the amount of time that patients need to spend in hospital
More than £800,000 has been raised by the York and Scarborough Hospitals Charity to fund projects which will enhance the patient experience including creating four outdoor terraces and providing accommodation suites for relatives.
The project lead, Jo Southwell, said:
"We don’t say it lightly, but it is transformational for the way we work, not just at the new UECC but how it works in terms of our current services in the rest of the building.”
She added that despite challenges along the way
“positivity has been sky high and the staff really can’t wait to start utilising the facilities”.
Jo also thanked everyone who had worked on the project and said that her “personal pride in the team that we’ve worked with can’t be understated” and that the building was evidence of how people had “worked over and above to achieve excellence”.
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