The endoscopy unit was funded by NHS England to assist with diagnostic delays and improve cancer outcomes. It was designed, manufactured, and delivered in only seven months from order. This is the second endoscopy facility that our team has delivered to Torbay Hospital, having provided a modular endoscopy suite back in 2003.
The state-of-the-art healthcare facility incorporates two procedure rooms, operating with a dual-access dirty utility and a scope store. The procedure rooms are supported by a six-bed recovery area, split to enable gender separation and each equipped with bariatric provision. The facility was designed with all required supporting accommodation, consisting of multiple pre-admission rooms, staff rest areas, offices, a seminar space and storage.
Our short site programme of eleven weeks reduced the hospital’s level of downtime for endoscopy, quickly allowing them to bring services back online. This was a key driving factor for the Trust and one that highlights the benefits of ModuleCo’s off-site ‘factory-first’ approach whereby up to 90% of the construction process takes place away from the hospital site at their specialist manufacturing centre in Gloucestershire.
With our client ModuleCo we are also pleased to have provided a three-storey twin modular operating theatre facility at Torbay Hospital. The facility is the second of the two-phase project that also seen a modular endoscopy facility delivered at the same hospital.
The new modular healthcare building features two state-of-the-art operating theatre suites on the first floor alongside pre-operative assessment space and a first stage recovery area that allows for patient segregation. The new surgical facilities will enable the Trust to carry out procedures for 4,500 more people every year.
Use of the new operating theatres will be mixed as each is designed for different surgical specialisms. One theatre features an ultra-clean ventilation laminar flow canopy to provide breast and orthopaedic surgery, the latter mainly focusing on day-case surgery of hip, knees and shoulders, whilst the other features a ceiling-mounted microscope that will be used by the eye surgery department.
The ground floor of the modular facility provides a new entrance to the Hospital’s Heart and Lung Centre with a large welcome area, office space for staff and an open-plan waiting area for patients. This level also contains multiple consultation and clinical examination rooms, as well as staff welfare facilities and storage space. The consultation and examination rooms have been designed to be a standard size and provide the Trust with the flexibility to utilise these rooms as best suits their future requirements.
