HEJ reports on the ongoing £485 m scheme to redevelop and replace key buildings at Brighton’s historic Royal Sussex County Hospital – one of the largest Treasury-funded NHS projects in recent years.
One of the largest Treasury-funded NHS projects in recent years is now well under way at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital. The ‘3Ts’ project (Teaching, Trauma, and Tertiary Care) is being undertaken in three stages to minimise disruption, and will see all the buildings on the front half of the historic hospital site replaced by two new buildings. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, spoke to director of the ‘3Ts’ project at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Duane Passman, to find out more.
The new 11-storey Stage 1 building at the Royal Sussex County Hospital will incorporate new diagnostic and treatment facilities, an expanded critical care unit, increased facilities for the Emergency Floor, and inpatient beds and teaching and meeting facilities, plus a new main entrance and spacious reception area. The separate, but linked Stage 2 building will include a well-equipped and much expanded Cancer Centre and accessible roof gardens. The £485 m development’s third and final phase will see a new purpose-designed delivery and service area for this busy hospital created.
As I walked through parts of the existing buildings to reach the ‘3Ts’ project offices where I was to meet with Duane Passman, I was immediately struck by how circuitous and multi-level the journey for patients, staff, and visitors, travelling from one part of the existing complex to another must be. Making all the key clinical and treatment areas more accessible is indeed one of the key goals of this major redevelopment scheme.
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