Catherine Zeliotis, a senior architect and healthcare leader at Stantec, and the lead clinical designer for the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital in London, describes both the company’s key design philosophies, and how it overcame a number of challenging practical issues – including not displacing the remains of a buried Roman boat found on the site – to create the blueprint for what the practice, and indeed all the project participants, believe will be a ground-breaking new cancer treatment complex.
The new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital (see also HEJ – May 2015), which is due to open in 2016, has been designed around the needs of patients and staff, creating healthcare architecture which is uplifting, non-institutional, and human-scale. Currently under construction, the Centre will consolidate, within one building, most cancer treatment services which are currently provided in a number of different locations across two hospital sites operated by the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It will bring together the latest treatments, support facilities, and integrated research, under one roof.
The design will deliver six radiotherapy treatment suites supported by highly enabled imaging facilities, an outpatient centre, a procedure suite, 46 chemotherapy chairs, and a dedicated research floor. The upper portion of the building will house a private patients’ unit leased by private healthcare provider, HCA. The new facility will be able to treat up to around 6,500 patients a year, handle 65,000 outpatient appointments, and deliver 80,000 radiotherapy fractions (doses).
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