THE transformation of hospital wards has begun as the first stage of a £34 million scheme to centralise children’s hospital services at Leeds General Infirmary and adult acute medicine and older people’s services at the city’s St James’s University Hospital.
Leeds architects Space Group and Laing O’Rourke have commenced the build for the clinical services reconfiguration programme at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The entire programme is due for completion during 2011. Brought together will be existing paediatric services currently based at both St James’s University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), via refurbishment and renovation of areas in the Clarendon and Jubilee wings at LGI to provide much improved facilities for children on a single site. Space freed up at St James’s will allow centralisation of older people’s wards and acute medicine there. The main changes at LGI include additional specialist facilities for children suffering from cancer, cystic fibrosis and serious liver conditions. New draft “air lock” lobby areas between each single patient room for children suffering from cancer have been designed by Space to reduce cross-infection.
