Mount Vernon Treatment Centre
With its spacious, clean and contemporary design, the Mount Vernon Treatment Centre has brought a new lease of life to the Mount Vernon Hospital site in Northwood, North West London. Replacing a dated collection of buildings from the 1960s, the two-storey new building is attached and integrated with the existing Princess Christian Unit and together they constitute the new Mount Vernon Treatment centre. The new element of the building houses four state of the art operating theatres to carry out elective surgery, plus outpatient services, a spacious waiting area, main entrance and coffee shop.
Open to the public since February 2009, the centre was built after the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust identified a need to separate non-elective and elective surgery within the area.
Says Steve Turner, Redevelopment Programme Director for the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust: "We'd prepared a brief for what we wanted to achieve but were struggling to find a public source of money to finance the build. The strategic health authority suggested using LIFT as a route to getting the project financed and built."
BHH LIFT were therefore brought on board to identify and manage the relationship with private sector partners to work with the Trust and finance, design and build the £18 million centre.
As well as a contemporary and spacious design, innovative technology has been incorporated to allow patients to check themselves in so allowing the reception team to manage queues more efficiently, to enable staff to track their patients’ movements, and a patient call system to put clinicians in control of the waiting area.
A café area has also provided a social hub for the centre, allowing staff and patients to relax and socialise on site.
"The nursing and administrative staff love the new building and thoroughly enjoy working here. It's big, clean and colourful," says Steve Turner, "The patients are now being treated in a significantly better environment than they were before and we’ve had some really positive feedback."
