Major new hospital construction programme to get underway next month
Salford Royal has appointed BAM to lead the construction of the James Potter Building.
Planning permission for the six-storey development (previously referred to as the Acute Receiving Centre) was granted in December 2019.
The new hospital build on the Salford Royal site is also part of the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan, the biggest hospital building programme in a generation which will deliver 48 hospitals across the country by 2030.
The new facility, named in honour of the organisation’s recently retired, long-standing chairman Jim Potter, will provide the Trust with major trauma and high acuity surgery facilities in a modern and innovative building.
Once complete, the specialist facility is set to receive 90% of all major trauma patients in Greater Manchester, for example, people who have been involved in a serious road traffic accident or life-changing fall. It will also be the hub site for high risk emergency general surgery across Bolton, Salford and Wigan. This means that any high risk patients from these areas who require surgical or non-surgical intervention will be brought to Salford for their care.
BAM is now on Salford Royal’s site carrying out enabling works with a full construction programme start confirmed for 22 February. Day Architectural has worked on the design in collaboration with BAM and the Trust. The James Potter Building is set to include a resuscitation area, five emergency theatres, inpatient beds, and diagnostic imaging, and a helipad, meaning seriously ill patients will reach the site even quicker for their life-saving treatment. The scheme aims to be complete in summer 2023.
This important facility has been many years in the planning with a number of our local, regional and national partners and it’s great to now be just weeks away from the official start date of construction. We are proud to be the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester and this centre and the amazing state of the art facilities and our specialist clinical teams within it will allow us to provide trauma care and services to an additional 400 trauma patients per year and help save more lives.
BAM’s recent track record in healthcare includes two new Nightingale Hospitals showing the company’s capability of using modular solutions and working in accelerated ways. It is working on several major hospital schemes around the UK, having adapted many schemes to provide additional support to the NHS in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. In Salford and Manchester, BAM has delivered scores of buildings for every major client in the public and private sectors, including its most iconic buildings.
Minister for Health Edward Argar said: “We are backing the NHS to build back better and throughout the pandemic we have continued to plan and invest in the future of our NHS buildings. I’m pleased work will soon get underway on this major development to provide state of the art new facilities and ensure patients can access specialised, life-saving treatment. The £68 million new hospital at Salford Royal will be one of the 48 hospitals which we’re backing to deliver by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital building programme in a generation and strategic long-term investment in the future of our NHS.”
