Furniture manufacturer completes £1.1m hospital contract

Mansfield-based manufacturer Deanestor has completed a £1.1m contract to supply and install furniture and fittings for over 1,600 rooms at the new Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, the UK’s leading specialist heart and lung hospital.

The contract involved the manufacture of nearly 2,000 base and wall cabinets, shelving units and worktops for areas including operating theatres, cardiac catheterisation laboratories, isolation wards and staff changing facilities.

The company also fitted over 12,000 other items at the new hospital including controlled drug cabinets, fridges, noticeboards and fire extinguishers, and manufactured kitchen units for 15 staff rest rooms.

Colin Glen, clinical project manager at Royal Papworth Hospital, said: “Our requirement was for good quality furniture that had longevity. Furniture that would be resistant to damage and that is well designed to avoid settling of dust and maintain infection control. Deanestor has provided great quality products which are exactly what the hospital needed.”

The contract was Deanestor’s fifteenth healthcare project for main contractor Skanska.