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The Treatment Centre

Project Details

£10m to £49.99M

Practice

Medical Architecture

4-6 Northington Street , LONDON , WC1N 2JG

The Treatment Centre is the refurbishment of an existing hospital to form an essential element of national and local strategy to meet the aim of delivering high quality modern healthcare. It provides a walk in, walk out service that includes: The design improves the patient experience, providing an easier to navigate, civic environment and a more vibrant and attractive place to work and visit. The central atrium space is vital to both the social function but also fundamental to way finding in a vertically layered building. All inpatient beds are provided in single en-suite bedrooms a significant issue for improved patient recovery and reduced cross infection. Interior design and selection of signage and materials are determinedly non-NHS standard. The Centre is the exemplar of NHS modernisation and is the second operational ambulatory care centre of its kind in the country. The renewed environment also facilitates the reinvention of staff culture which is pivotal to the success of this new model of patient centred healthcare facility. From the layout to the way staff interacts with the building users, the Centre marks a significant departure from traditional NHS ways of thinking and working.