Building Size:
1883 sq. mtrs

Start date:
September 2010

Completion date:
April 2012

Project Status:
On-Site

NHS Lift - Newby Place Health and Community Centre, Tower Hamlets, London

An example of our capabilities of working within a public private partnership.

Project Details
The Newby Place development is a key component in PCT’s to delivery of its “Improving Health and Wellbeing Strategy”. The project involves the development of a new health centre to replace the out dated one that formerly occupied the site. Key to this scheme has been the interaction with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets planning department as the site lies within a conservation area, in the grounds of a Grade One listed church.
 
In addition, the design of the new health centre has been an interactive process with representatives of the PCT’s Estates and Commissioning directorates. The service delivery strategy and functional content have developed organically since the inception of the project, making flexibility in design and responsiveness to change a “must have” for the design team.  The completed project will provide accommodation for a large GP practice, an urgent care team, sexual health clinic, podiatry, speech and language therapy unit, audiology, phlebotomy and district nurse, health visitor and adult social care teams.
 
One of the early challenges on site will be to exhume dead bodies.  Any bodies we find are likely to have been there since the early 1800’s and are believed to be Paupers and Cholera victims.  The exhumation is fully licensed and arranging this was just one of the challenges we’ve overcome in getting to Financial Close today.

Functional Content & Use
The Health & Well-Being Centre will be approximately 2,085 M2 and include accommodation for:
• General Practice for 15,000 patients offering individual and group consultations, treatment, education, near patient
testing, physiotherapy and podiatry in a series of multi-use generic rooms
• Pharmacy advice and prescribing
• Multi-use Group Rooms that will be used for Baby Clinic, group consultations and education especially, but not exclusively,
for those patients with Long Term Conditions e.g. diabetes
• Interview and Counselling Rooms for use by a variety of healthcare professionals
• All rooms will be multi-functional and will also provide bookable accommodation for other non-NHS agencies e.g. Citizens
Advice Bureau, Benefits Advisors, Employment Advisors, etc.
• Open plan areas designed for health education and health promotion as well as waiting
• Open plan office space for all staff
• Staff facilities
It is expected that the Health & Well-Being Centre will be open from 08.00 – 20.00 hrs seven days per week.