Collaborative approaches are increasingly being adopted on capital hospital projects. Here, Rekha Thawrani, Global director at NEC Contracts, explains how collaborative contracting helped to overcome specific challenges and contributed to the successful delivery of the upgrade to the emergency department at Stepping Hill Hospital, in Stockport.
Beginning in 2022, the £34 m upgrade at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, significantly expanded and improved the emergency care facilities at the hospital. Completed in six stages, the project involved extending the old emergency department with a new three-storey steel-framed building over the existing ambulance drop-off area, plus a new two-storey wing to the side.
Over 300 m2 of new assessment, treatment and consultation areas have been provided, including for a children's emergency department, mental health services, and same day emergency care. The ambulance drop off zone was also remodelled.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust chose to embrace a collaborative approach on the scheme and utilised NEC contracts to facilitate this. Specifically, it procured the scheme, awarded to contractor Tilbury Douglas, using an NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) Option C (target contract with activity schedule).
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