A £4 m refurbishment and expansion of the accident and emergency services at The Royal Oldham Hospital – which includes dedicated paediatric facilities, and was designed by IBI Group – is complete, providing more treatment bays, support accommodation, and improved links to critical care facilities.
IBI Group’s interior design team developed a themed children’s admission area and welcoming adult reception as part of the design. The paediatric facility incorporates a reception desk that resembles a bus, with working headlights and scrolling information display. The waiting and play area are themed around an urban park with roads, pavement, and grass surfaces suggested within the floorcovering. Wall protection represents fences, hedges, and trees, and a replica illuminated traffic light leads the route through to the paediatric treatment area, where the theme continues with highway signage and double yellow lines.
The reconfiguration was undertaken by Vinci Construction UK.
