Digital expertise hired for major healthcare transformation project
Consultancy Mott MacDonald has been appointed digital and innovation healthcare advisor by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT).
Working with sub-consultant Atos and a panel of specialist digital health advisors, Mott MacDonald will support the preparation of a digitally led design brief for a new hospital building in Leeds city centre, as well as a new pathology facility at the St James University Hospital (SJUH).
As part of the Leeds Hospital of the Future Project, the programme is intended to transform healthcare for patients in the region.
Covering 970,000 sq ft, the new hospital will include new children’s and adults’ hospitals, as well as operating theatres and critical care facilities.
These will be connected to the retained Jubilee building which shall remain the primary acute services premises, and will continue to operate as the major trauma building.
The trust also plans to build a 53,800 sq ft high-tech and efficiently designed pathology facility at the SJUH site.
This will centralise its pathology services as one of several newly established hubs across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.
Karel Bos, Mott MacDonald’s account leader for LTHT, said: “We’re delighted to broaden the services we’re offering to LTHT with this digital appointment.
“It builds on mechanical, electrical and public health, civil and structural engineering services our local Leeds teams are providing to support the outline business case and the site enabling works.”
As digital and innovation healthcare advisor, Mott MacDonald’s Smart Infrastructure team will drive the digital agenda and support the development of the design brief.
This will enable the hospital buildings to respond to continuously evolving technology, innovation and the future needs of healthcare patients and staff.
Bos added: “As part of the Government’s £2.7bn Health Infrastructure Plan to build new hospitals, modernise the primary care estate and invest in new diagnostics and technology, we have an opportunity to work with the LTHT and set a benchmark for all hospitals in the UK to learn from.”
