Critical healthcare refurbishment at Bradford Royal Infirmary completes

Work has completed on the relocation of the Renal Dialysis Department at Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI), part of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Working in collaboration with the Trust and contractor Robertson, Stephen George + Partners (SGP) has helped deliver the scheme, which comprised the extensive refurbishment of the existing Nightingale Ward to accommodate the unit.

The project has been delivered within a live hospital environment and required careful phasing and infection control measures to minimise disruption. A new procedure room and the addition of three single-bed facilities with shared bed bays have been developed, as well as expanded clinical and ancillary accommodation. The works also included essential infrastructure upgrades and the installation of a new Air Handling Unit (AHU) and the construction of an external acid tank enclosure, providing additional capacity to the existing unit.

SGP won the project having been appointed as a supplier on NHS Shared Business Services’ (NHS SBS) Healthcare Planning, Construction Consultancy and Ancillary Services (HPCCAS) framework agreement. SGP developed a feasibility study with a range of options, with costings, based on applicable best practice guidelines, primarily Health Building Note (HBN) 0702 (Main renal unit) as well as other HBNs, Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) and Activity Database (ADB) software.

The scheme involved extensive user group and clinical team engagement to develop a set of options based on the clinical team’s requirements for more side rooms and bed bays.

Babor Qureshi, Associate at SGP comments: “We are delighted to see this important healthcare project reach completion, delivering a safer and much improved environment for both patients and staff. We were able to apply our extensive in-house healthcare expertise to design a scheme on a live hospital site that has fully delivered on the client’s requirements.”