The University of York is set to invest £5.8 million to redesign and build new Hull York Medical School facilities.

This project includes the complete redesign of the existing medical school building as well as the provision of new clinical skills spaces within the Seebohm Rowntree Building. It will help accommodate the additional 90 undergraduate medicine places offered as part of the government's expansion of undergraduate medical education.

A central feature of the redesign will be a new real-life, problem-based learning suite and collaborative learning space for students on the first floor of the Medical School building. Students will also benefit from close proximity to the growing Health Professions Education Unit which is at the forefront of developments in health education.


Contractor Interserve has been appointed to complete the fast-track design and build project, following successes delivering the new Piazza and Biology buildings and the £20m Allam Medical Building in Hull in 2017.

This new contract win is the seventh major healthcare business win secured by Interserve in the past 12 months with a combined value of more than £130m. Other significant contract wins include the £50m programme of works for Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust and the contact to build obstetric and neonatal facilities at Glangwili Hospital for the Hywel Dda University Health Board.

(CM/MH)