The Trust has appointed Steve Turner as PFI Project Director for Phase 1 of the redevelopment. Steve has extensive NHS PFI/PPP experience, having successfully delivered the PFI projects for West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and the LIFT project for the Hillingdon Hospital Trust. Since November 2009, he has worked for the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust as Programme Director for their circa £250m PFI Project.
What is happening about the redevelopment of the Stanmore site?
On 31 March, the Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham, visited Stanmore to confirm approval of the Trust's case to redevelop the Stanmore hospital, thus giving us the go-ahead to build phase one of our redevelopment project. Harrow Council also granted outline planning permission for the redevelopment on 10 March 2010.
Phase one of the RNOH Stanmore redevelopmentPhase one of the redevelopment will include a brand new suite of wards and a state-of-the-art imaging department - all designed to improve patients' experience of coming to the RNOH. More than 60% of the beds will be in single rooms.
Over the next few months, the Trust will go out to market to appoint a partner to build the new hospital culminating in a full business case, which, once agreed, means building will start on site in 2012 with completion expected in 2014.
Why are we redeveloping the hospital?
Stanmore Redevelopment - Case for ChangeMost of the buildings on the Stanmore site date from the 1940s and many are no longer appropriate for the high quality care and excellent clinical outcomes we provide for our patients. In addition, maintenance costs for these old buildings are very high. In spite of this, we still have an enviably low infection rate and aim to maintain this.
The new hospital will:
- Be purpose built and appropriate for a specialist orthopaedic hospital which is regarded as a centre of excellence
- Enable us to improve our patients' experience through single bed rooms, single sex wards, logical location of services
- Provide improved facilities for staff and volunteers, giving them a better environment in which to work
- Be designed to meet current and future needs, enabling greater efficiency and productivity whilst maintaining excellent patient care
How much will the new hospital cost?
We have secured agreement to build phase one of the hospital at an estimated cost of £81million.
How will the hospital be funded?
The redevelopment will be funded through private funding. We will be seeking private partners for this redevelopment in the summer.
What happens next?
We are currently embarking on detailed planning for the new hospital. Over the next two years, we will award the contract to build the hospital and, in 2012, the building works will begin, completing in 2014. In the meantime, the refurbishment of the outpatients' department has begun - this will give our patients a more comfortable environment for their outpatient appointments, as well as provide our staff with appropriate facilities in which to care for those patients.
Design
The design has been based on:
- Service vision
- Appropriate clinical adjacencies
- Separation of inpatient and outpatient facilities
- Delivering the most efficient and appropriate healthcare
- Minimising the patient journey
- Meeting Health Building Note (HBN) standards
- Future expansion space
- Maximum flexibility incorporated by design
- Site of natural beauty located within the green belt
Key benefits
The key benefits that the preferred option will deliver are:
- Enable delivery of the clinical model
- The modernisation of services will improve working relationships for staff and improve co-location of available clinical staff
- Is least disruptive to services, being a near-green field development on the existing site. Decanting from old to new accommodation will be simple
- Green belt land will be released and reinstated
- Functional relationships will be optimised
- Access for patients will be excellent
- Capacity will be sufficient to deliver the NHS Plan and associated targets
- The flexible design will be responsive to changing requirements of healthcare and activity
- The proposed design is coherent with logical relationships and does not constrain future development
- A large element of a historic backlog maintenance problem will be resolved
- Will meet the NHS Estates rationalisation agenda
How do I find out more?
We will keep our website up-to-date as plans progress but if you have a query about the redevelopment process, please email redevelopment.enquiries@rnoh.nhs.uk.
Redevelopment office contact details
Redevelopment officeEastgate House
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Brockley Hill
Stanmore
Middx
HA7 4LP
| Name | Position | Email address | Telephone No. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Masters | Director of Projects, Estates & Facilites | mark.masters@rnoh.nhs.uk | 0208 909 5278 |
| Steve Turner | PFI Project Director | steve.turner@rnoh.nhs.uk | 020 8909 5105 |
| Stephanie Williamson | Head of Design & Healthcare Planning | steph.williamson@rnoh.nhs.uk | 0208 909 5701 |
| Bernice Breslaw | Project Officer & PA to Director of Projects, Estates & Facilities | bernice.breslaw@rnoh.nhs.uk | 0208 909 5278 |
| Download | Size |
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| Case for change.pdf | 673.25 KB |
| RNOH Outline Business Case | 2.4 MB |