The design of a new build primary care centre on Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, was led by Sheppard Robson. The design of the facility aimed at promoting a healing environment that incorporated increased patient safety, wellbeing, privacy and patient choice. The proposed scheme lent itself to a facility that addressed legislative and consumerism standards.
The Sheppard Robson redevelopment of Brentwood Community Hospital replaces an existing 1930s building to provide a new state-of-the-art hospital facility for the local community. The Hospital incorporates both inpatient and outpatient facilities. Situated on a site with exceptional ecology, the design is based on maximising views and light into the seven departments which range from rehabilitation to women’s and children’s services.
The new Sheppard Robson designed £40 million Hadfield Wing is the latest addition to Northern General Hospital campus - opened in 2006. The building was designed to provide state-of-the-art National Health Service care. The Hadfield Wing contains 168 beds, half of which are in single rooms with en suite facilities; providing comfort and privacy for patients. Special rehabilitation rooms with kitchen facilities are provided, where patients overcoming a disability can regain confidence before being discharged.
The new Medical Sciences Teaching Centre (MSTC) accommodates the Pre Clinical School of the Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The 3,000m² Centre provides medical teaching laboratories, seminar rooms, offices, a 225-seat lecture theatre and workshops and is a step change in teaching design, breaking down departmental boundaries and encouraging a common approach to teaching by sharing laboratory space.
Sheppard Robson is working with NHS Fife to develop a strategy to reshape its General Hospitals and Maternity Services. The Victoria Hospital site in Kirkcaldy is at the heart of the reshaping exercise and will absorb and expand the transfer of facilities from Forth Park Hospital. Sheppard Robson has designed a new acute services building to provide state of the art healthcare.
Sheppard Robson is leading a multi-disciplinary team to develop a strategic masterplan for Northampton General Hospital, located close to Northampton town centre. The study has been broken down into two key stages. The first stage forms a comprehensive development appraisal of a 3.5ha site at the west of the site that has been earmarked for disposal. The second stage develops a robust masterplan for the 12ha hospital site,
The Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism was commissioned by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Oxford with major sponsorship from the Danish pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk. The £8.2m, 5,300m2 building is a landmark structure on the Churchill Hospital Campus at Headington, Oxford.
Rowan Road was the largest of the ten sites to be part of the Design for Manufacture competition, and the third to be won by the SixtyK consortium led by Sheppard Robson. The proposed scheme includes 217 new homes, a new medical surgery for ten doctors, and a dental surgery and community hall.
King's College Hospital is at the forefront of promoting day surgery, achieving 71% of all elective surgery as day cases. Clinicians wanted to improve this position, pushing the boundaries of care, with an increasing number of procedures being carried out as day surgery (a national target of 75% was set, and KCH believes 80% or more is achievable locally). Sheppard Robson was appointed to provide a solution to increase capacity.