On September 22, an event was held at the upgraded Shoreham's Southlands Hospital to celebrate bringing essential services closer to the community it serves.
The event saw speeches by Clinical Director for Community Diagnostic Centre's in West Sussex Neil Cripps and Jemma Deane, Community Diagnostic Centre Manager, with Head of Radiology Services at UHSussex Caroline Davidson and James Ramsden, Senior Project Manager at Morgan Sindall Construction’s Southern Home Counties business, also in attendance.
Several pieces of specialist equipment have been successfully installed on site at Shoreham’s Southlands Hospital, including one MRI scanner, one CT scanner, two X-ray machines and a chest X-ray machine.
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Procured through the Pagabo framework, Morgan Sindall has worked alongside Ward Williams Associates and architects Crowther Associates to refit and reconfigure underutilised areas of the facility, improving the West Sussex hospitals operational efficiency.
The improvement works will increase the capabilities of the hospital and help to provide earlier diagnoses for the local community. It is part of the UK Government’s pledge to launch 40 new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England, with a target of providing around 2.8 million scans in their first full year of operation.
Through using Morgan Sindall's Intelligent Solutions approach, the team innovatively designed and installed removable sections of the RF Cage walls to the MRI suite to enable access for future replacement and improvement strategies. This will offer the Trust flexibility for the long-term future, whilst also minimising any disruption to other essential services.
Guy Hannell, area director for Morgan Sindall Construction in the Southern Home Counties, said: "It has been a pleasure to work with the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust for this vital project at Southlands Hospital. We have further strengthened the collaborative relationship we have developed with the Trust following the successful development at St Richards Hospital.
"Being based within West Sussex, our team has first-hand experience of using the facilities and knows the incalculable value of its essential services. The whole Southern Home Counties business is privileged to have delivered these improvement works and understands the important role they will play in improving key health outcomes for the local community, such as enabling earlier diagnoses for a range of priority conditions."
