PM Devereux Architects has recently completed the design and procurement of a new 60-bed adult acute mental health facility for the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SABPT) at its existing site in Farnham Road, Guildford. As senior healthcare director, Mark Carter, reports, a key element of the brief was to provide a service that de-stigmatises those suffering from a mental health illness.
The new Farnham Road Hospital project (The Network – January 2016) was procured under the original P21 framework, with Laing O’Rourke as the Principal Supply Chain Partner; the hospital was a result of a review of mental health service provision across the region, and was originally intended to be one of three new facilities.
The Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has defined its core purpose as follows:
These principles were used as a base for the Trust to develop its service model in accordance with the direction of national and local policy, defining the following key principles of its service:
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