Fusion Projects

Gwent Specialist Critical Care Centre - Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust

Lead Consultants : Adrian Vickers, Geof Beesley and Judy Macdonald

The Gwent Specialist Critical Care Centre is a £270m (capex), 431 bedded "specialist" hospital, designed to provide "acute" acute care with the support of local hospitals to develop a steamlined care pathway in Gwent. The project currently rests at pre OBC approval.

As part of its clinical strategy programme entitled "Clinical Futures", Adrian advised the Trust on the clinical development strategy to radically reform healthcare provision from a number of separate sites in the Gwent locality. Included within this extensive and wide-ranging project were significant elements of master planning inputs for both clinical and non-clinical support services, projects ranging from significant new build hospitals to major refurbishment and redesign of current general hospital sites.

Advice was required to generate and conclude on the optimum options for refurbishment of existing sites, decant strategies, clinical and non-clinical service placement, relationships and strategies. This advice prompted the decision to let a contract through the Designed For Life: Building For Wales Framework, appointing Laing O´Rourke as the Principle Supply Chain Partner.

Geof Beesley, as SDC Serco Consulting´s Director for health planning, headed this project as the Principle Supply Chain Member as part of the Laing O´Rourke framework until September 2008. Geof´s work included the setting of performance targets as part of the framework with NHS Gwent, resource and programme management and acting as the lead for the supply chain for health planning.

Adrian continued to act as part of the Interserve supply chain leading the strategic change planning for clinical support services across the locality and advising on the refurbishment options for a number of local general hospital sites.

Judy Macdonald led the project as SDC Serco Consulting´s Project Manager until the summer of 2008. Judy established a methodology which ensured timely and significant stakeholder engagement and ownership for the development of schedules of accommodation, a departmental adjacency matrix to support 1:500 and 1:200 development, departmental operational policies and a whole hospital policy. She worked closely with design team colleagues and Trust leads to produce the project briefing documents.