The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has appointed Kier 萝莉原创 to deliver four projects to improve the island鈥檚 health services.
Hospital works include the construction of a high dependency care unit increase the hospital鈥檚 capacity to provide specialists services.
An emergency care floor will be added, co-locating the existing emergency department, urgent treatment centre and short stay facilities, improving treatment room size and access to diagnostics.
A new 18-bed acute ward will separate planned and emergency impatient care, which is expected to help with the better use of beds.
Fourthly, Kier will also put an integrated mental health and community hub in Newport High Street, providing treatment and talking therapy rooms, and 鈥榯ele-hubs鈥� for medicine appointments.
Kier 萝莉原创 regional managing director David McKenzie said that the project would 鈥渢ransform healthcare on the Isle of Wight鈥�.
Kier has been the hospital鈥檚 regular preferred builder in recent times. Over the past 11 years it has refurbished the pathology unit and dementia-friendly wards, and it has 聽reconfigured and refurbished the emergency department.
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