The architects’ practice RyderHKS has been appointed by Morrison Construction to design the new St Andrews Community Hospital being procured under a £25 million public private partnership (PPP) scheme for NHS Fife.
The new 10,700 m2 (115,000 ft2 ) community hospital will include three GP practices, dentistry, physiotherapy, dialysis, a 40-bed inpatient diagnostic and treatment centre, specialist elderly rehabilitation care and a day surgery unit.
Paul Bell, architectural director for RyderHKS’ Glasgow office, who will lead the design team on the project, said: “This project presented a unique opportunity and challenge to develop a new community hospital for St Andrews.
The design is responsive to the human scale and fine grain that characterises the built environment of St Andrews and provides an uplifting environment for the delivery of community healthcare facilities. It integrates GP clinics, outpatient services, and inpatient care.
“A series of pavilions linked by a central public hub space reduces the scale of the building and minimises the travel distance between departments. This design also simplifies way finding and creates an effective and reassuring heart to the hospital.”
Work on the new hospital – which will replace St Andrews Memorial Hospital and St Andrews Health Centre, and offer a greater range of services to patients in the area – is expected to begin towards the end of 2007, subject to full planning consent and opening is planned for Spring 2009.
