The vision for a new hospital in Lynn has been revealed for the first time.<\/p>\n
The first designs for a rebuilt Queen Elizabeth Hospital will be on view at a series of public events starting this week.<\/p>\n
It will be built on the existing main car park of the hospital site, incorporating single rooms for all wards.<\/p>\n
What the new QEH, which will have all single rooms, could look like. Picture: QEH<\/p>\n
Designed by BDP, specialist architects in healthcare design, the new building is being developed using national guidance from the New Hospital Programme.<\/p>\n
Hospital 2.0 is a standardised blueprint design for all new facilities, developed in consultation with hundreds of clinicians, healthcare staff and patients across the country.<\/p>\n
Residents are being invited to information sessions to find out more about the design process. There will be an opportunity to see what the new building could look like – subject to planning – and find out more about ongoing work to make the building a reality.<\/p>\n
A first look at the designs for the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Picture: QEH<\/p>\n
Events will be taking place at the following locations – doors open at 5.45pm with presentations starting at 6pm:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tuesday, June 10: Hunstanton Town Hall<\/p>\n
\u2022 Thursday, June 12: Lynn Town Hall<\/p>\n
\u2022 Monday, June 16: Virtual event<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wednesday, June 18: Swaffham Assembly Rooms<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wednesday, June 25: South Wootton Village Hall<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wednesday, July 16: Marshland St James Village Hall<\/p>\n
\u2022 Monday, July 21: Downham Town Hall<\/p>\n
Paul Brooks, director of estates and facilities and senior responsible officer for the new QEH, said: \u201cWe are delighted to be able to bring along first visuals to show people what the new QEH could look like and give them a feel for how our new, digitally enabled, hospital will function.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a huge amount of work under way to bring a new hospital to West Norfolk for our patients, our community and our staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look forward to meeting as many people as possible at these events, updating on our progress towards a new QEH and the work to keep our current site open and providing the best possible care.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) hospital, the QEH has been prioritised for rebuild by the national New Hospital Programme.<\/p>\n
Attendees will have the chance to hear more about the new multi-storey car park, which is a key enabling project for the rebuild.<\/p>\n
The team of experts will explain how services will be developed for the new building, including preparing departments for the move to a digitally enabled hospital and healthcare innovations being explored to meet the needs of residents for generations to come.<\/p>\n
To register to attend the viewing events, book online at www.newqeh.org.uk, email newhospital@qehkl.nhs.uk or call 01553 613051.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vision for a new hospital in Lynn has been revealed for the first time. The first designs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,7388,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-kings-lynn","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114654645101193690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}