The UK’s largest modular medical facility has been completed at King’s College Hospital in London.
The 3,450sq m unit is the largest offsite construction project within NHS healthcare to date and was procured via a bespoke, structured finance agreement supported by SAF Solutions.
Manufactured by Premier Modular, the facility was handed over to the trust within nine months of the contract being signed.
And the modules were installed on an existing car park at the hospital in just 23 days.
King’s College Hospital serves more than 700,000 patients across four London boroughs and was facing severe capacity constraints due to a lack of available space and urgent upgrades required to its current facilities.
Jane Tabiner, managing director at SAF Solutions: “Collaboration and partnership were central to the successful delivery of this project.
The building was handed over just nine months after the contract was signed, with the modules craned in over 23 days
“We worked closely with the team at Kings College Hospital to understand the trust’s financial needs and designed a bespoke solution that fits the bill.”
The large-scale facility will assist in reducing waiting times while improving the patient experience for urgent care services, all without disrupting the current day-to-day activity of the hospital.
The use of existing hospital estate to house the facility also allows the trust to redevelop other areas of the site.
The new facility provides 48 purpose-designed consultation rooms and eight procedure rooms for a range of services including dermatology, rheumatology, respiratory, neurosciences, pain management, and urology, as well as other aspects of surgery and therapies.
And the finance solution, which can be adapted to align with the evolving needs of the trust and its patients, takes the initial building and development elements of the project into account, amalgamating costs into a single monthly fee.
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