Profile
We are a talented, creative team of around 100 with a shared ambition to work collaboratively, to make healthcare better. Our knowledge and expertise is founded on over 40 years of experience giving us a deep understanding of the challenges and specific requirements of the healthcare sector.
With four studios, our teams work throughout the UK in every aspect of healthcare design for both the NHS and private providers. Services include architecture, interior design, estates rationalisation, feasibility studies, business cases, masterplanning and project management
As a trusted partner in healthcare with an exemplary delivery record, we consistently demonstrate exceptional design and technical knowledge, embedding true value into every project.
From modest refurbishments to major reconfigurations, extensions and new builds, delivering large scale new projects or complex estate rationalisations, we apply the same enthusiasm, expertise and passion for designing outstanding healthcare.
We work in all sectors: acute, primary, mental health, older age and specialist care, designing critically acclaimed schemes that deliver benefit and improve healthcare outcomes. Our desire is to create better places for people to live, work and be cared for.
Successful projects are about people; those who commission, conceive, use, design, and construct them. The start of our design process begins with intelligent listening and a positive environment for creative thinking. This coupled with our knowledge and experience allows us to work together with clients and colleagues to deliver buildings that delight, that function well and provide high long term value. Our open, team approach aims to give all stakeholders a voice in the design process, producing buildings that function efficiently on all levels, offer highly therapeutic facilities and represent the best value for our clients.
Above all we are endlessly passionate about what we do.
Selected projects include:
Foss Park
York’s new mental healthcare facility for adults and older adults for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust (TEWV), Foss Park is centred on the needs of patients, families and staff. Created with exceptional involvement of service users, staff and community the scheme includes 72 bedrooms over four wards: two adult single sex wards and two older people's (one organic, one functional illness). Winner of Best Interior Design in the Patient Environment class at the 2020 BBH Awards and Highly Commended in the Building Design category, Best Healthcare Development over £10M.
“Interiors are calm, with plentiful daylight and natural muted colours. The important role of nature and organic materials in supporting wellbeing is evident throughout the scheme in the choice of materials, colours and views and access to outdoors.”
Emergency & Urgent Care for North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS
A £65M project sites to transform Urgent and Emergency Care across northern Lincolnshire, streamling services and creating modern, well-equipped facilities to meet patient needs.
Following the construction of new Emergency Departments at Scunthorpe General Hospital and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, the team went on to deliver Acute Assessment Units, including Same Day Emergency Care, Assessment, Frailty, Gynaecology and Short Stay wards. Working to a significantly compressed programme to meet funding requirements, P+HS Architects oversaw the rapid design development of both sites From a blank sheet of paper in August 2020 with work starting on site in March 2021 with the entire project completed in 2024
“This is a fantastic space, which will be so much better for our patients.”
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Castleford Integrated Health Hub
A new Integrated Health Hub that will address health inequalities, improve access to healthcare services and deliver better health outcomes for the local population.
The new development will accommodate three GP practices, council services, pharmacy, and community dentistry, and podiatry.
Plans were shaped in close consultation with stakeholders and careful consideration given to the needs of all building users and a much-improved environment created for patients and staff. Natural light and fresh air are key elements of the design and the team challenged traditional layouts.
“P+HS Architects have designed a building that exactly fits the brief and the needs that we asked for”
Willowfield Building at Kings College Hospital
Fast-track off-site construction project for a new £21m Outpatient building. P+HS Architects worked with the client team at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London and principal contractor Premier Modular to create a brand new dedicated home for outpatient services as part of the Trust's Modernising Medicine Programme. The development allowed a range of outpatient services to be relocated and consolidated, freeing up space within the main hospital building, helping to reduce waiting times and improving the experience of patients visiting for urgent care.
Winner of Project of the Year at the MMC Awards 2023.
Day Treatment Centre
A fast-track project developed to tackle NHS waiting lists, the new Day Treatment Centre at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital went from car park to completion in under 38 weeks!
The stand-alone building is specifically for Day Case patients with the focus on tackling the elective care backlog and reducing the hours that patients must spend away from home.
There are four theatres designed to deliver non-complex surgeries including orthopaedics and urology. Designed to ensure an efficient and enhanced patient flow, the scheme also includes 14 pre-op bays, 8 first stage recovery and 16 second stage recovery bays. High quality staff welfare and ancillary accommodation aims to maintain a positive environment for both staff and patients.
Winner of Value Award and the Integration & Collaboration Award at the CENE 2023
“It’s a lovely environment. It’s spacious. These are beautiful theatres, they’re a pleasure to work in.”
Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Carlisle
A new £35M scheme developed in partnership between North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to provide cancer services of the highest quality to the people of north, west and east Cumbria. The modern state-of-the-art building means that care will be available closer to home and, with non-surgical cancer services together under one roof, will avoid patients having to move around to different parts of the infirmary.
The team consulted widely on the project, using input from a broad range of stakeholders as they carefully considered and thoughtfully crafted design proposals. Every element of the design centres on people; how they might use and experience the building, with the aim of creating the best possible experience for staff, patients, carers, or relatives.
“It’s a bright, energised building. A striking piece of architecture that stands out. It’s light and airy and a pleasure to be in.”
