Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust has completed a move of patients and staff into Hopewood Park in Ryhope, Sunderland – a 122-bed inpatient facility for adults, providing psychiatric intensive care (PICU), acute assessment and treatment, complex care, and stepped care.
The new £50 m mental health campus, on the site of the former Cherry Knowle Hospital, completes a £60 m investment in modernising services south of the River Tyne. Medical Architecture has partnered with Laing O’Rourke and Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust for over a decade.
The architects said: “The campus provides a safe, recovery-centred environment, with generous, relaxing places to appreciate views to the North Sea coast and surrounding landscape. Urgent care wards with safe enclosed gardens are paired for efficient staffing; these, along with the PICU, share common therapy, amenity, and support, in a prominent civic-scale at the facility’s heart.
