Webinar – The Journey Towards Single Inpatient Rooms

Webinar – The Journey Towards Single Inpatient Rooms

(https://health-spaces.com/news/single-patient-rooms/).

Single patient rooms webinar | 28th July 10.30am – 11.30am

What are the benefits of a single room hospital? Should hospitals provide all patients with single rooms? What are the implications for single patient rooms under the New Hospital Programme (NHP) guidance? How can the design of multi-bed bays be evolved to improve patient and staff experience?

Research has shown that single rooms will increase patients’ privacy, dignity and confidentiality, in addition to giving patients more control over their immediate environment and consequently helping to aid the healing process. Yet the journey taken in designing new hospital ward layouts – balancing cost, space and a Trust’s bespoke requirements – can be challenging.

Join Jaime Bishop, Feet Director and Co-Chair of Architects for Health, Warren Edwards, Project Director at Health Spaces, Paula Miller, Chief Nursing Projects Officer (New Hospital Team) and Diane Goodwin, Operations Director for the New Hospital Programme, as the team highlights the journey taken by James Paget University Hospital as the Trust develops a new 28 bedded decant ward.

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Lister Hospital – New Hybrid Vascular Theatre

Lister Hospital – New Hybrid Vascular Theatre

Fleet Architects working with Health Spaces have been appointed to design a new Hybrid Vascular Theatre for the Lister Hospital site in Stevenage.

Theatre Suite will allow surgery and state of the art imaging to be undertaken at the same time in a single operating theatre. This means a team of vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists can work together to carry out endovascular procedures, treating problems with blood vessels without the need for open surgery.

Patients with major trauma will also benefit from the new theatre by allowing those with multiple injuries to undergo both endovascular and open surgery in the same place.

The Theatres will integrate an Ultra Clean System previous unused in the UK integrated with a Philips ceiling mounted C-Arm.

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New Starter – Maees Hadi 

New Starter – Maees Hadi 

Maees Hadi has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 2 Architectural Designer having previously worked with social housing specialist Henly Halebrown and studied at the Royal College of Art.

Maees’  interest in architecture is influenced by research and spatial design that can guide us to develop better spaces for people. Maees wants to develop her skills in socially-led projects and be more involved in work that serves the community. Maees Hadi is an architectural designer, researcher and a filmmaker. She has a multidisciplinary practice and engages in research topics such as political identity, representation and the migrant subject which has developed from her own studies and experiences. Maees was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1993, however grew up in Sweden and later moved to London where she started her academic studies and later work. Maees holds an MA architectural degree from the Royal College of Art, London and a History of Art certificate from Birkbeck University, London.

Maees work has recently been shown in Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021 and screened in Christies and at the Design Film Festival by curating contemporary design in collaboration with the Design Museum in London.

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Re-imagining Short Breaks and Respite Care for Young People

Re-imagining Short Breaks and Respite Care for Young People

Working closely with the Northants Healthcare NHS Trust, the Fleet team have reviewed the practical and emotive opportunities to improve the environment to house a vulnerable cohort for  short respite breaks.  The service users include disabled children and young people with disabilities including either a diagnosis of autism, complex health needs and/or complex behaviour.

The proposals sought to introduce more safety measures to the bedrooms while de-institutionalising and bringing in opportunities to personalise the spaces for each of the circa 72 children and young people using the facility annually.

At the core of the proposals was the need to open up the living and dining spaces to more natural light and the extensive gardens while, critically, still maintaining the physical flexibility staff require to support the residents.

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New Starter – Amy Matthews-Page

New Starter – Amy Matthews-Page

Amy Matthews Page has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 1 Architectural Designer form the exciting RIBA Studio course run through Oxford Brookes University (https://www.architecture.com/education-cpd-and-careers/studying-architecture/riba-studio).

The RIBA Studio programme is for students in practice, who would like to work towards qualifying as an architect whilst remaining in employment. Unlike any studio and lecture based programme in architecture, you will work towards either your, Part 1 or Part 2 qualification whilst working full-time, under the direct supervision of an architect in your office, the office mentor and with a personal tutor who has current experience of design in a School of Architecture.

 

More text to follow.

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Community Diagnostics for Norfolk and Waveney

Community Diagnostics for Norfolk and Waveney

Employing the GIS mapping techniques developed for the Well Placed Hospital essay, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson Economics Prize, the Fleet and Place and Purpose Teams first analysed the most effective locations by access to locate the new Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC).

These locations were then assessed against the available property, circa 30 were identified, including existing NHS void spaces and a wide range of commercial spaces including former shops and department stores.

The Norfolk and Waveney CDCs are following a hub and spoke model with the high tech equipment, MRI and CT for instance, concentrated on existing acute sites.  The spoke CDCs will incorporate a range of pathways including Respiratory, Cardiac, Cancer, Upper/Lower GI, Urological, Head and Neck, Ophthalmology, MSK and Diabetes.  The designs seek to maximise flexibility of room use, with emphasis on adequate size, generous storage and non-specialism to ensure the buildings have a use stretching long into the future.

Current sites being evaluated include a former Wilkinsons, combing the works with the redesign of a community well-being facility and the re-use of 2 currently empty former inpatient wards within community hospital settings.

Read our essay ‘A Well Placed Hospital’ here:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6884476700617388032/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(ugcPost%3A6884476699900170240%2C6884514039808978946)

More comment on the benefits of relocating health services to high foot fall town centre locations here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaimerbishop_mungo-smith-recently-sent-me-a-link-to-an-activity-6939549453523562496-12J3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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Sam Mendes Stops Filming and Work Finally Starts at the Shakespeare

Sam Mendes Stops Filming and Work Finally Starts at the Shakespeare

Work at Shakespeare Hotel and Workspace on the beach front in Margate, a joint venture between Fleet Architects with private investment partners and a business development loan from the Kent and Medway Business Development Fund.

Works on site works were delayed initially by a moratorium on seafront scaffolding due to the ongoing filming of Sam Mendes’ latest project, Empire of Light staring Olivia Coleman – https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/filming-well-under-way-for-hollywood-blockbuster-263504/

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Join Our Team!

Join Our Team!

 

Fleet would like to hear from Qualified, Part 2 or Part 1 Architects interested in joining our London or (new) Margate studios.

Please send brief CV, work examples and covering letter (Max 5mb) to:

mail@fleetarchitects.co.uk

 

 

 

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Fleet Working with GP Led Community Wellness Hub

Fleet Working with GP Led Community Wellness Hub

Fleet Architects have been appointed to review the opportunity to install a Community Well Being Hub in the new Goods Yard Development in Bishop’s Stortford.  Fleet are working with the local GP Federation, the CCG and the local Mental Health Trust to explore the project.

More information to follow.

 

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Jaime Bishop Elected Co-Chair of Architects for Health with Stephanie Williamson

Jaime Bishop Elected Co-Chair of Architects for Health with Stephanie Williamson

Architects for Health  posted:

 

“Yesterday’s  Architects for Health  AGM was a wonderful celebration of the work we all do within the sector, but particularly of the huge contribution outgoing Chair, Christopher Shaw, has made to the organisation. Thank you from all of us for your herculean efforts over many years!

Congratulations too to incoming Co-Chairs, Jaime Bishop and Stephanie J Williamson, and to our new Executive Committee Members, Ruairi Reeves and Evangelia Chrysikou PhD, and to Caroline Mulholland who is re-appointed.

We’re looking forward to a wonderful 2022!”

 

Stephanie and Jaime have been elected on a 5 year term and are the first co-chairing partnership for the organisation following a constitutional change also agreed my members this year:

 

Jaime Bishop, Fleet Architects – Election Statement:

Stephanie and I are a complementary pairing, with AfH experience and a shared passion for healthcare design and its impact on all building users.

I am a director of Fleet, a practice focussed on social value. Previous roles include MAAP, SBA and Coda, amassing over 20 years of healthcare experience since studying at Bath and the RCA.

I have been involved with NHS boards; a Governor at HUHFT and NED at City and Hackney CCG, chairing Primary Care and PPI.

Fleet are based in London but our work is national, when combined with Stephanies’ Yorkshire base will buttress the advances AfH has made in engaging with welcomed geographical reach.

When first involved in AfH I was challenged by the chair, Ann Noble, to improve the appeal of healthcare design to young architects. This resulted in the founding of the Student Awards. This is still an important role of AfH alongside greater collaboration and engagement with our clinical counterparts and policy leaders. Stephanie is the ideal partner to pursue these goals.

Having dedicated my professional career to design in healthcare and, if successful, we will continue to campaign and advocate for the value of good design in this incredibly vital sector.

 

Stephanie Williamson, GSTT – Election Statement:

I submit my nomination for the role of Chair of Architects for Health jointly with Jaime Bishop. We are a strong pairing, both with experience of the Exec Committee and with a shared passion for healthcare design and its impact on building users. I have 20 years experience as a client. My most recent posts include:

  • Exec Director of Built Environment at Great Ormond Street
  • Director of Design & Development at Guy’s and St Thomas’.
  • Our combined experience gives us a broad perspective and useful insight on healthcare design and development.

So what will I do:

  • grow the organisation and more ably address the geographical divide in activities and events.
  • Continue to support the European Design Congress.
  • Refresh the Student Awards encouraging clients and members to participate.
  • Continue to promote passion and expertise in the hospital environment and arts through awards and filed trips.
  • Continue to improve the networking opportunities making them creative and enjoyable events.
  • Grow our connections with similar organisations overseas.
  • Finally I have years of experience chairing meetings and working with execs and volunteers running organisations.
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