21 July 2014
Trust celebrates the opening of new hospital
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (NTW) will open the
doors to its new multi-million pound hospital next month.
Hopewood Park in Ryhope is expected to welcome its first patients next
month and is the final stage of a £60 million project which saw the opening of
the new award winning dementia centre at Monkwearmouth Hospital last
year.
This new 122 bed hospital comprises of six wards, each with 18 individual ensuite rooms for urgent care assessment and treatment.
Hopewood Park will also look after patients who have complex on-going
needs and require rehabilitation services. It also includes a 14 bed psychiatric
intensive care unit.
The existing 15 bed Meadow View unit on the site will be retained and will
provide a ‘moving on’ service for those who are coming to the end of their
treatment.
This state-of-the-art £50 million building also offers a new central facilities
building called The Barton Centre featuring a range of other services including
a café, mental health act tribunal offices, a faith centre, a physical treatment
suite, pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and exercise therapy.
Named after World War Two hero F/O Cyril Barton VC the Barton Centre will
also be home to the Trust’s Initial Response Service and Crisis Treatment
Teams and a carers’ information hub.
Hopewood Park is a significant part of NTW’s on-going Transforming Services
programme which will see a massive change in how the Trust will offer
services and its relationship with service users now and in the future.
Constructed on the site of the former Ryhope General, Hopewood Park was
designed by Medical Architecture and was constructed by Laing O’Rourke.
It also features artwork by Dan Savage who also created the memorial to F/O
Barton which can be found at the entrance of the Barton Centre.
James Duncan, Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Finance,
said: “Since May 2012 the Transforming Services plans have been further
developed and we are now implementing changes in the way we provide
community services in the Sunderland and South Tyneside area. These have
been designed around the needs of service users to give excellent support,
with the right interventions at the right time to people living in their own
communities.
“This will reduce the demand for mental health beds in the local area but we
want to ensure that when people do need to be cared for as an inpatient, they
receive the best possible care in an environment that promotes recovery.
“Hopewood Park has been designed with care to support service users
achieve this both now and especially in the future, and it will be a real
pleasure to see how this new building and its staff will help people achieve
their goals on their journey to recovery."
To celebrate the opening of Hopewood Park, NTW will be hosting two public
open days which will give service users, carers, stakeholders and local
residence the chance to look around the building before it receives its first
patients. These will take place on Wednesday, 30 July from 10am to 7pm and
Saturday, 2 August from 10am to 5pm.
ENDS
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest
mental health and disability NHS trusts in the country with a budget of over
£300 million and a workforce of over 6,000 members of staff.
It provides a range of mental health, disability and substance misuse services
for 1.4 million people across the North East of England in Newcastle,
Sunderland, North & South Tyneside, Northumberland & Gateshead, as well
as providing a number of regional and national services.
For further information, please contact:
Charlotte Sly
Communications Department
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
0191 223 2986
07827 993 365
charlotte.sly@ntw.nhs.uk
www.ntw.nhs.uk
@ntwnhs
Media Preview Questions and Answers
What is Transforming Services?
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is re-designing our
services to ensure we can continue to provide high quality, safe, recovery
focused care for those living in our region.
To achieve this, our Transforming Services Programme has looked at both
community and inpatient services, and has worked in partnership with service
users, carers and local organisations to develop plans which radically change
the way services are provided.
This involves ensuring that everything we do has a recovery focus, supporting
service users to get well, and stay well.
As part of this process, we need to ensure that the Trust has the ‘right’
number and right type of inpatient services to meet the current and future
demand.
The Trust strategy is to develop a future of safe sustainable services, focused
on enabling people to recover as far as they are able and to enable them to
live in their own communities.
What are the names of the wards?
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Beckfield
Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit -PICU
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Springrise
Shoredrift
Longview
3x acute assessment and treatment
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Bridgewell
Complex Care
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Aldervale
Clearbrook
2x Stepped care high dependency wards
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Gate Lodge
Patient Advise Liaison Service (PALS) and
Northumbria Police
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Garden View
Horticultural project
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Barton Centre
Central facilities including occupational therapy,
cafe, multi-faith room, Initial Response Service and
hospital management.
The hospital will also retain the Meadow View ward which will be refurnished
as a ‘moving on’ unit.
Each ward features a family visiting room which is suitable for children to visit
relatives. There will also be a carers’ room including en-suite facilities which
will be available for overnight stay.
How was Hopewood Park funded?
Hopewood Park is part of a £60 million project which is being funded through
a £40 million loan from a Government fund set up to help NHS Foundation
Trusts. This will be paid back over 25 years. The balance will come from
funds which have been set aside by the Trust over previous years to improve
facilities. This is not a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) scheme. The Trust will
own the facility.
Construction and Design
The new facilities are being built under the Trust’s ProCure21+ Partnership
with Laing O’Rourke.
Founded on 165 years of experience, international engineering firm Laing
O’Rourke provides the facilities to accommodate, educate, employ, transport,
care for and sustain communities.
With a proud history in the North East, Laing O’Rourke has been a trusted
partner of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust for over a
decade.
Making use of Laing O’Rourke’s Design for Manufacture and Assembly
technique, our most recent project together, Hopewood Park is a fantastic
example of what can be achieved through a collaborative approach,
innovation and discipline in delivery.
Specialists in the design and planning for Healthcare environments, Medical
Architecture are an award-winning design practice which delivers intelligent
cohesive facilities across the globe. Founded in 1991, the practice focuses
specifically on the Healthcare sector, bridging the gap between policy, vision
and function. Their design ethos is underpinned by research and evaluation of
lessons learnt and the adoption of innovation in construction methods.
Operating from offices in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sydney, they are
committed to the provision of innovative healthcare buildings that enhance the
delivery of care across a wide range of sectors within the healthcare
spectrum. With an international benchmarking knowledge of recent projects
and continuous exchange of the latest thinking in healthcare environments, in
an established network of international specialists, conferences and industry
forums, they are able to improve outcomes through research and the
application of evidence based design.
Dan Savage has produced a unique collection of public art pieces throughout
Hopewood Park. One of the most important items he was commissioned to
create was the glazed memorial to Flying Officer Cyril Baron VC which can be
seen by visitors at the Barton Centre. The Barton Centre also features
woodwork which illustrates the history of Ryhope including its industrial
heritage and the nearby engines museum landmark.
Cherry Knowle – the future
The Cherry Knowle site is owned by the Homes and Communities Agency
and is leased to NTW until February 2015. The HCA is currently working with
a major house builder to develop the site.