The complexities and challenges, including decanting patients and staff into eight temporary ‘cabins’, of a £3m refurbishment and asbestos ‘strip-out’ at a north Kent private hospital.
A successful £3 m upgrading and renovation of the early 19th Century-built ‘old wing’ at BMI Healthcare’s Chelsfield Park Hospital near Orpington, Kent, which also saw over 50 tonnes of asbestos boarding removed from above ceilings and roof spaces, and necessitated all staff and patients re-locating to eight fully serviced and medically equipped temporary cabins on the hospital’s front lawn, has been described by the project manager who managed the scheme as ‘one of the most complex projects I have ever managed, and one of the most involved BMI has ever undertaken’. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Located in attractively landscaped grounds close to the small village of Chelsfield some two and a half miles from Orpington in Kent, the BMI Chelsfield Park Hospital is one of 61 private hospitals and treatment centres run by the private healthcare group across the UK. The hospital has 46 en suite bedrooms, three operating theatres, and a high dependency unit. It also incorporates an HFEA-licensed assisted conception unit, or ‘ACU’, said to be one of the most advanced in south-east England. The hospital undertakes a wide range of surgical procedures – ‘from routine investigations to complex surgery’.
Origins in the early 19th century
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