This project is a critical part of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust’s Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) rolling safety programme.
The Trust has engaged McAvoy to design and deliver a Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD) facility using its SmartCare modular solution. The 900 m² decontamination facility will support the hospital’s surgical and medical device sterilisation needs, allowing for the swift relocation of services from the current RAAC-affected building. In addition to the CSSD facility, McAvoy will build a 154m² enclosed link corridor ‘to ensure seamless movement between the new unit and main hospital’.
McAvoy say its SmartCare modular solution will enable the rapid delivery of the CSSD, addressing the need to relocate services from the current building. The new facility has been designed to meet the ISO 13485:2016 quality management system, and the essential requirements of the Medical Devices Directive 2017. The project follows the successful delivery of a two-storey Domestics, Sewing, and FM Office Space for the hospital earlier in 2023, also using McAvoy’s SmartCare modular solution.
Nichola Hunter, Deputy director of Estates and Facilities at QEH, said: “The CSSD cleans, decontaminates, and sterilises, medical equipment and instruments – a service essential to the QEH Theatres Department and the life-saving operations its team performs every day. This relocation is an essential part of our RAAC safety programme to maintain services at The QEH.”
Project completion is expected by July.