The new Mid Argyll Community Hospital, a pioneering integrated community health and social care facility in Lochgilphead, Argyll, is nearing completion and is due to open in May 2006.
However, the project is much more than the replacement of an existing old hospital. The new building is planned to enable and facilitate fundamental change in the way in which health and social care is delivered in this rural area. Services are being redesigned and modernised around the needs of patients and, overall, the project aims to substantially increase services and the amount of care that is delivered locally.
The design solution, developed in collaboration between the NHS, its client-side advisers and the Canmore-led consortium, represents an innovative approach to integrating and co-locating a wide range of health and social care services. The building solution exploits the hillside topography of the site to create a low rise building that clusters services in logical groupings and minimise patient and visitor movement within the building. The scheme provides approximately 7,000 m2 of accommodation on two floors.
STRATEGEM Management and Technical Consultants were the NHS Client’s Project and Technical Advisers for the project from strategic inception through to development of outline and full business cases, service and technical output specifications for the PPP/PFI procurement process, and provision of project management support during contract implementation.
For more information contact:: Helen Claughton – Business Development Manager STRATEGEM Management and Technical Consultants E-mail: helenclaughton@ strategem-consultants.com Web: www.strategem-consultants.com
