Clinics, diagnostics and wards in one estate

This anonymised healthcare showcase combines learning from several schemes for different providers. To protect confidentiality we do not name trusts or show identifiable images of real sites. The range of projects covered is typical of our work: a new GP and diagnostics clinic, a ward and day case refresh and a defined piece of work in a specialist care unit.

The focus is on getting clinical functionality, compliance and patient experience right, whether the work is a small clinic from shell or a multi-bay ward refurbishment. Sometimes the building is empty, sometimes it is occupied while we phase works around care.

Aligning clinical needs, standards and buildability

On one representative project, the brief combined a new community clinic with diagnostics rooms and a modest ward refresh in the main hospital. For the clinic, our role was to take a shell space and turn it into a compliant, welcoming environment with appropriate waiting, consulting, treatment and support areas, and to coordinate MEP and medical services around equipment layouts.

In the main hospital building, the ward upgrade required careful planning around bay layouts, nurse base positions, bedhead services and storage, with clear separation between clean and dirty flows. We worked alongside the client’s clinical and estates teams to map out what needed to change and what could remain, then sequenced work so as much of the ward as possible remained usable during the programme.

Across schemes like this, the detail matters: door swings, storage locations, sightlines to patients, the placement of nurse call panels and the way services are routed behind finishes. We combine the clinical standards and guidance with practical buildability so that spaces are easier to clean, maintain and use once they are handed back.

Sometimes that means a light-touch refresh to finishes and services in an existing footprint. Sometimes it means a deeper reconfiguration or a completely new clinic or department in a different building. Our approach is the same: understand the clinical need, design and phase appropriately then deliver cleanly and predictably.