Outpatient Unit
The relocation of multiple hospital services and a new pharmacy to a refurbished three-storey community hospital — delivered at a cost of £8.0 million.
| Location | St Mary’s Community Hospital |
|---|---|
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Cost | £8M |
| Role | Project Management |
the brief
Relocate a number of hospital services from one hospital (due for closure and redevelopment) to the nearby community hospital. A broad range of outpatient services were transferred, including Podiatry, MSK, Heart Failure and several others. The project also included the provision of a brand new, fully functioning pharmacy dispensing unit within the same building.
what studio mode did
Studio Mode were engaged as the in-house project management team throughout this multi-year project, leading the project from inception to completion and operational use. We undertook the early briefing and initial concept design, and then led a multi-disciplinary team through all RIBA stages 1–7. In addition, we designed the interior environment, all signage, and coordinated a bespoke programme of artwork.
The refurbished unit has been widely praised by both patients and staff who relocated from the previous hospital. Bright, airy, colourful, and designed with clinical functionality in mind – it’s seen as a huge success.
anything else?
Yes – we were also responsible for managing the entire equipping process, including the creation of a new desk standard for Trust office spaces. This included not just the selection and layout of furniture, but also close coordination with the Trust’s ICT team to ensure appropriate provision of kit and services. We managed all staff and service relocations (there were quite a few!), and we were also commissioned to redesign the entire wayfinding strategy for the hospital campus.
“Mark and the team have been extremely helpful and exceeded our expectations.
What could have been a complex re-development and move full of snags has proceeded right through to completion effortlessly.
The commitment to ensuring the brief at the start of the project was correct and the on-going weekly meetings organised by Mark’s team have been invaluable to ensuring planning, communications, development and moving flowed seamlessly.
Every detail has been attended too and the development team have gone above and beyond to ensure our new working environment was finely adjusted to meet the needs of our team even after the build was completed.”
any tricky bits?
Plenty. The building is three storeys high. The upper two floors were vacated for refurbishment, but the ground floor remained live throughout, requiring extensive stakeholder consultation and engagement. More significantly, one of the upper floors housed the hospital’s primary data centre – which also functioned as a mirror data centre for a large acute hospital elsewhere in the region. This facility had to remain live and undisturbed throughout the entire 12-month construction period. A complex challenge, carefully handled.