Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust

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Facts and figures

  • Project delivery 2 years 6 months
  • Project value: £17.4 million
  • Total area of 5,903m² on 3 floors and partial basement

Sandwell Emergency Services Centre

Following an arson attack on the A&E Department, Interserve was appointed by the Trust in order to design and build its replacement facility through the ProCure21 framework.

As the result of a Trust merger, there was an opportunity to revisit the whole estate development strategy, which led to a revised Emergency Centre. Interserve assisted in the development of the OBC, FBC, stakeholder consultations, risk assessment and procurement.

The scheme comprises a new two-storey state-of–the-art emergency facility; incorporating a 20-bed Emergency Assessment Unit with fast track cubicles, minor injury and illness cubicles; and a 10-bed Coronary Care Unit with Cardiac Catheterisation facility. Adjacent functional departments include theatres, paediatric facility, decontamination unit, imaging department and plaster facilities.

Achievements

  • Savings of 23 per cent (£4 million) were identified through a value management exercise
  • Cost certainty from OBC to GMP
  • Developed new innovative models of care for A&E
  • Maintained end-user involvement throughout
  • Certainty of delivery
  • Subsequently, we became the Trust's Strategic Alliance Partner for ProCure21 projects at Sandwell and City hospitals.

Towards 2010: Acute Facility OBC / PSC

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust is working with partners in the local health economy to deliver a reconfigured service and estate programme - "Toward 2010 - investing in a Healthy Future". The development of a new £400m 87,000m² acute hospital emerged from DH Private Finance Unit review in 2006.

Interserve was commissioned to help prepare a Public Sector Comparator (PSC) and Design Brief as part of the Outline Business Case (OBC). Our health strategists and planners; property and planning consultants; architects; cost advisors; and highway, structural and mechanical engineers supported the project.

We provided the Trust with a dedicated consultant as a single point of contact; integrated key clinical stakeholders; and fully auditable activities and costs. The use of the ProCure21 Framework simplified procurement processes and timescales by 12 months.