The Project
Deanestor manufactured around 3,000 items of furniture for this 55,000m2 hospital, including laboratory furniture, shelving, base and wall cabinets in compliance with all relevant HTMs. Its team procured and fitted more than 22,000 products for around 1,450 rooms – from mirrors and medi rails to drug cabinets and specialist catheter storage units.
Accelerated Completion in Covid-19 Pandemic
Completion of the new hospital was accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic to make 350 new patient beds available early. This allowed the health board to take possession of 50 per cent of the hospital just four weeks later. To help achieve this, Deanestor installed over 1,000 soap and towel dispensers and 263 PPE centres, and manufactured and fitted 48 HTM71 pharmaceutical storage solutions, all in less than three weeks.
Complex and Critical Care for the Local Community
Designed by BDP, the new hospital provides complex and critical care, serving a community of over 600,000 people. Services include:
- 24-hour assessment unit to deal with all major emergencies
- Dedicated paediatric assessment unit
- Neonatal intensive care
- Support services including pathology, pharmacy and radiology.
The facility is the centrepiece of a new model of care to separate emergency and specialist care from more routine hospital treatments.
Longstanding Partnership with Laing O’Rourke
Deanestor has a long-standing business relationship with Laing O’Rourke, having provided furniture and fit out services for the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool’s first specialist cancer hospital.
The Grange was a fast-track project which has delivered a centre for excellence in critical and emergency care and in less than two years.
Deanestor was able to provide the capacity, quality of manufacturing, compliance and logistics management to meet Laing O’Rourke’s stringent requirements and challenging programme.
Futureproofing
The Grange University Hospital was designed to be flexible, adaptable and expandable and to create a seamless pathway for emergency patients through diagnostics and surgery. There are around 560 beds in total, including trolleys and cots. The design of the single bed wards accommodates intensive nursing for acute care whilst giving patients privacy, dignity, rest, recovery and infection control.
Bespoke Hospital Furniture Manufacture
Deanestor’s contract included the manufacture of white base units with light grey laminate worktops for all the patient bedrooms, staff beverage bays and kitchenettes, and cantilever peninsular benching, worktops and adjustable shelving for around 26 pathology laboratories.
The Trust's Perspective
Darren Cann, Works and Estates Manager, The Grange University Hospital:
“This was a large-scale and complex hospital fit-out project. We had stringent requirements for robust, long-lasting furniture and fittings which would be easy to clean and maintain to meet the highest standards of infection control. Deanestor was able to accommodate our specific requirements, such as sloping worktops to facilitate cleaning, and to help us meet all relevant HTMs and HBNs.”
“Deanestor has a good reputation in the healthcare sector so we had confidence that their bespoke furniture and fit out services would meet the Trust’s expectations. The finished installation looks great and we propose to continue to use their team for some further work at the hospital.”
A Long Track Record in the NHS
Originally established in 1948 to manufacture hospital furniture and fittings for the newly established NHS, Deanestor now has the resources and expertise to manage 5,000-room hospital projects. It has built on this success and expanded into new markets which have specific requirements for aesthetics, strength, and long-term durability. It offers bespoke design services to meet specific project requirements and is responsible for installation to provide a seamless approach for contractors and construction clients and a single point of contact.