St Leonard’s Redevelopment
NHS City and Hackney would like to update you on our plans to
transform St Leonard's hospital site into a Primary Care Resource
Centre where local people can access a range of services.
Some health services based at St Leonard’s Hospital are moving
off-site, to allow for construction of the South West Hackney
Primary Care Resource Centre. Read full
details
Please note: Due to delays with building work, The Ivy
Centre (sexual health services) move is being pushed back until
Summer 2010.
Bigger, Brighter, Better
The St Leonard’s Hospital site is about to
undergo some major changes for the better. NHS City and Hackney and
East London NHS Foundation Trust are planning to redevelop the St
Leonard’s Hospital site to improve the facilities and increase the
range of health services available in the borough of Hackney.
In 2006, NHS City and Hackney conducted the
‘Bigger, Brighter, Bettter consultation’ which proposed that GP
surgeries operate from fewer, more modern buildings. It also
proposed that four Primary Care Resource Centres be built across
Hackney to deliver a wider range of services closer to where people
live. These ideas were supported by local people and we are working
hard to progress these plans. One of the four Primary Care Resource
Centres will be located at St Leonard’s.
A Primary Care Resource Centre is a one-stop
place where local people can access a range of services. These
include:
• GPs with
extended opening hours
• Diagnostic
tests including ultrasound and audiology
• Antenatal
clinics with community midwives
• Community
Dentistry
• Urgent Care
Centre providing a walk in service
• Community
health services like physiotherapy, foot health and family
planning
• Psychology
(Talking Therapies)
• Clinics
traditionally provided in outpatient departments
• Services
provided from the Ivy Centre which offers a wide range of services
including family planning, cervical smears, emergency contraception
and advice on sexual health.
•
Physiotherapy services (including the back pain service)
• Adult
Community Rehabilitation Team
• Wheelchair
service
Other services could be housed at St Leonard’s
which serve the whole of the borough as well as local people
including ,information and advice services e.g. benefits advice,
information and potentially assessment for social care and
multi-function rooms for use by community groups and for a range of
health promotion activities.
East London NHS Foundation Trust is keen to
provide a modern therapeutic environment for local people who need
in patient mental health care. Although the facilities at the City
and Hackney Centre for Mental Health (based at Homerton Hospital)
are not old, guidance about privacy and dignity has changed since
the unit was built 15 years ago. It is hoped that 6 wards will be
developed at St Leonard’s housing 115 beds.
The proposed design would mean that
individuals would have their own room with en suite facilities
(there are very few single rooms in the current unit), separate
facilities for men and women, direct access to outdoor space in the
courtyards and terraces, additional therapy and activity space will
be available within the wards which will be easy to access and
assist rehabilitation and recovery and people will be cared for in
a bright homely safe environment.
The building which is currently the
headquarters for NHS City and Hackney is part of a conservation
area. We are committed to preserving historically important
buildings so the front or facade of the building on Kingsland Road
will be preserved.
We hope to demolish the buildings in the rear
of the site to make way for the new purpose built modern
facilities. Work is scheduled to begin in summer 2011 and it
is estimated that the Primary Care Resource Centre will take two
years to complete and the mental health unit approximately the same
time after.
Feedback and questions about the redevelopment
can be e-mailed to communications@elc.nhs.uk or call on 020 7683
4187.
See
East London NHS Foundations Trust’s web site for
information about the proposed Mental Health Unit