The redevelopment at Chesterfield Royal Hospital provides a new patient-focused one stop department for a range of women’s health treatment services and also redevelops the hospital’s adjacent inpatient ward. Meetings with staff and patients identified staff productivity, cost efficiency, improved patient privacy and dignity, and the creation of a friendly, welcoming hospital environment as key priorities for the redevelopment.
This brief had to be achieved within an existing 1980’s octagonal ward layout with a centralised nurse base that was very disorientating.
