Hull’s new Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre (ICC) opened in July during the week the NHS celebrated its 70th birthday.
Architect, Medical Architecture, says one of the centre’s key goals is to ‘transform lives for the elderly’ in Hull – by providing out-of-hospital care, while reducing unnecessary hospital admissions, ‘enabling enables residents to keep fit, healthy, and living independently, in their own homes’.
The practice added: “The centre is the first of a new class of buildings being developed to support local NHS transformation. The service caters for 12,000 frail older people with complex and long-term conditions, assessed as being at risk of hospital admission.”
The Centre’s specialist team includes consultants/geriatricians, advanced nurse practitioners, GPs, pharmacists, therapists, and social workers, Along with modern consultation and treatment rooms, a range of on-site diagnostics will enable the team to undertake blood tests, X-rays, and CT scans. Adjacent is a fire station for Humberside Fire and Rescue, which provides a falls response team.
Medical Architecture added: “For the patient, a visit may involve rapid assessment, followed by tests and treatment by several team members working alongside each other. What once took several hospital appointments with associated travel and stress is achieved in a single visit.”
The centre was delivered under LIFT, and overseen by the development partner, Citycare, and contractor, Sewell.