Willmott Dixon Interiors has been selected to develop the extension and internal refurbishment of the emergency department of Conquest Hospital in Hastings, East Sussex.

The £2.7 million project, on behalf of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, will create new clinical and non-clinical space and is part of a wider strategy to care for Covid-19 positive inpatients.

The new design will reconfigure secondary underused waiting space to deliver a new clinical treatment cluster - including a separate paediatric treatment and waiting area - and increase the number of treatment spaces from 17 to 27.


An area of land adjacent to the existing emergency department has been allocated for an extension of the facility, which will house both patients and administrative staff.

Awarded by the Procurement Hub Major Projects Framework, it is the second recent project to be delivered by Willmott Dixon Interiors for East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, following the contractor’s refurbishment of a former maternity ward at Eastbourne General District Hospital.

The project will be delivered by Willmott Dixon Interiors and a team including architect, Murphy Philipps Associates LLP; project manager, Currie & Brown; and structural engineer, Gyoury Self.