This picture shows an artist’s impression of a possible hospital design to stimulate our thinking.
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organisations to develop new integrated models of care, Then we must complete a full developing solutions that business case (FBC), which is the overcome the challenges we all final design of the building and face every day. all the intricate details, including fixtures and fittings and design Your chance to shape our details. This needs to be complete future by December 2021. We can’t do it without you. There has been an outstanding response Finally comes the exciting bit – we to the first call to clinicians, start to build our amazing new nurses and operational staff to get hospital. We know it is important involved in the development of the to our people and patients to future model of care. This model move in as quickly as possible, so of care will provide the details we plan to have this completed by needed to ensure that we provide December 2025. the first pandemic proof hospital, commissioned post-COVID-19. However, it won’t all be plain sailing. There will be many However, as we all know, it is not challenges to overcome, we will just clinicians that make a hospital have to be agile and flexible work - it takes many, many more in our thinking. We will need including domestics, porters, to work across disciplines and catering, maintenance, training
and education and library teams to name but a few. We want you all on this journey, so please take any opportunity to get involved. Design brief Work has also started on the exciting plans to develop the design brief for the new hospital. Your ideas and suggestions along with those from our patients and people who have visited the hospital will be vital in ensuring that the architects have the details they need to produce an outline design of the proposed facilities. Updates This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to build one of the best hospitals in the country. We have all fought hard to gain this opportunity so now it’s time to get involved - be part of our future. 6
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