Mediplan has supplied nurse call and patient entertainment equipment to the new £300 million Forth Valley Royal Acute Hospital in Larbert, in Scotland, the UK’s first healthcare facility with a robotic delivery system for meals, laundry, and clinical waste, and, with 860 beds, 16 operating theatres, and 4,000 rooms, the country’s largest completed healthcare construction project yet.
The hospital was officially opened by the Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, on July 6. The PFI-funded facility, built by Laing O’Rourke as part of a John Laing Social Infrastructure-led consortium, has been constructed on a 320-acre site. Mediplan has installed its Medilight bedhead trunking system with integral light, and its Series 25 digital nurse call system (with nurse station touchscreen control), with which each patient has direct control of their (Mediplan designed, manufactured, and supplied) LCD television via their handset. The television system provides Freeview digital broadcasts free-of-charge, while each patient entertainment system also airs programmes “24/7” from hospital radio station Radio Royal, which has its own new studios at the hospital.
