RD Health joined the Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership as it held an Open Day at the Satrosphere Science Centre on Tuesday 19 January 2010 about the proposed Health and Care Village in the city centre.
This was the first opportunity for the people of Aberdeen to see the plans for this exciting new development to find out more from the design teams, and to offer comment about the project to date.
The Health and Care Village to be located on Frederick Street, will provide a wide range of community based out-patient diagnostic and treatment services for the people of Aberdeen and Grampian. This will, where appropriate, shift the balance of care from a hospital to a community setting, ensuring that our specialist services at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary are more available for those people who need urgent or specialised services.
The Health and Care Village will provide additional services to those already available within local communities and aims to create a ‘hub and spoke' model of care within Aberdeen. The Health and Care Village will compliment the health and care services provided in homes, GP Surgeries and health centres throughout the city. It will include a wide range of services under one roof including, for example, x-ray and ultrasound, minor surgery, dentistry, specialist physiotherapy, dietetics, cardiology, podiatry, speech and language therapy, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation and sexual health services.
Some of the services located in the Village will relocate from existing healthcare buildings that are due to close in the next few years e.g. Denburn Health Centre, Woolmanhill Hospital, Square 13 in Golden Square and the Westburn Centre at Foresterhill.
The £29 million development occupies 6,000 square metres over 3 floors (285 rooms) and additionally includes an underground car park. The development will also include the creation of a multi-storey car park to the north-side of Frederick Street to replace the car parking presently provided from the site.
"This is an extremely exciting project for the NHS in Aberdeen with significantly different design to our present services. It is a key element of NHS Grampian's continuing commitment to bringing services closer to communities and people. This will create the ideal setting for people to obtain information, education, care and treatment in an easy to use community setting and will also enable staff to work in new ways to promote wellbeing in the City," says Heather Kelman, General Manager, Aberdeen City CHP.
"Working with our design construction team and Aberdeen City Council colleagues, we have already started working on producing proposed designs for the building, on seeking approval from the NHS Grampian Board and the Scottish Government, on buying the site from the City Council and on obtaining planning permission," says Jackie Bremner, Service Planning Lead for Aberdeen City CHP.
RD Health were appointed by NHS Grampian, through the NHS Frameworks Scotland procurement, to develop the Full Business Case for this project.