New emergency care floor at St Mary’s Hospital
Extensive refurbishment and expansion of our emergency services. Co-locating our existing emergency department, urgent treatment centre and short stay facilities with the addition of a new frailty unit. A separate, dedicated emergency entrance will improve access for patients.
New integrated mental health and community hub in Newport
A new integrated Mental Health and Community Hub in Newport High Street including 8 treatment and talking therapy rooms, 11 telehubs for telemedicine appointments, 2 rooms for social and community use and a community café.
Benefits
- New ambulance entrance for children improves flow and operational efficiency
- Increases size of treatment rooms and improves access to diagnostics
- New waiting room layout improves patient safety at night
- Improves colocation and adjacency of emergency services
Benefits
- Better patient and staff experience, joined up services offering improved continuity of care
- Improves accessibility and offers late opening times
- Prevents mental health care needs escalating
- Promotes sustainability and regeneration of the high street
New high dependency care unit at St Mary’s Hospital
Major refurbishment and expansion of our Intensive Therapy Unit. Increasing from 6 to 8 beds and the addition of a separate 6 bedded Enhanced Care Unit to ensure that patients are cared for in the most clinically appropriate setting.
Acute bed reconfiguration
at St Mary’s Hospital
A new 18-bed acute ward will see the reconfiguration of our acute beds. This will enable better use of beds and the separation of planned and emergency inpatient care.
Benefits
- Increases resilience and improves patient outcomes
- Complies with new national guidance
- Increases capacity to develop specialist services
- Improves patient flow
Benefits
- Improves privacy and dignity for patients
- Relocates the stroke unit to next to our acute medicine facilities
- Relocates the breast screening service to an area more convenient for patients
- Expands our current x-ray service and improves access to diagnostics