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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
March 2022
New helipad opens at Scarborough Hospital
A new lifesaving helipad has opened at Scarborough Hospital that will enable seriously ill and injured patients to have immediate access to the Emergency Department after landing by helicopter.
Thanks to a £500,000 donation by the HELP Appeal, the only charity in the country dedicated to funding hospital helipads, work began in December on the new 31 square metre helipad, destined to help to save the lives of people living, working and visiting in the region.
The new larger helipad means that as well as landing the air ambulance, the much bigger search and rescue helicopter will also be able to land near the hospital, making a huge difference for incidents out to sea. By significantly reducing transfer times, patients with serious injuries, such as those caused by road accidents can be transported by air from rural locations.
State of the art lighting will be installed to enable landings during darkness hours, meaning that patients can be taken by air to Scarborough Hospital 24 hours a day for the first time. Patients at risk can also be swiftly transported to major centres of clinical expertise for specialist treatment.
The helipad has been relocated to free up space for the much-anticipated new Urgent and Emergency Care and Critical Care Departments at Scarborough Hospital.
Green light for new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre
Plans for a new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre at Scarborough Hospital have been formally approved.
The £47m investment in the town’s emergency care facilities will see a new centre with an integrated critical care floor for intensive care and coronary care that almost doubles the current space.
Attendances at Scarborough Emergency Department have increased at a rate of around 5% year on year for over a decade and the new build will provide much needed extra space. It will also mean patients from minor to complex needs can be looked after in the unit by one team of healthcare professionals working together who will see more patients as quickly and safely as possible. The centre will have its own dedicated diagnostic zone providing CT scans, general X-ray and ultrasound.
The project will include a two-storey new build combining and expanding the current emergency department, same day emergency care, the acute medical unit and improve outcomes for the frail elderly. It will ensure some of the poorliest patients in the hospital are cared for in one integrated clinical ward environment rather than being moved to other wards.
The second floor will house critical care services bringing together all critical care patients and staff in one location. It will increase bed capacity which will help relieve the pressure on beds elsewhere in the Trust.
The scheme also includes work to address essential site-wide engineering infrastructure which will see huge improvements to the electrical system, ventilation and drainage.
New six-bed isolation unit opens at York Hospital
Work has been completed on the new £2.5 million purpose built intensive care unit at York Hospital which will provide six new isolation beds for critical care. The modular building, linked directly to the Emergency Department, opens mid-March.
The unit provides vital extra beds for patients who need critical care as well as much-needed extra capacity. Throughout the pandemic demand on critical care meant that there were not enough isolation facilities on the critical care unit so areas in theatres had to be used which affected capacity to carry out operations.
The purpose-built intensive care ‘pod’ delivers essential additional isolation facilities with six lobbied rooms. This should future-proof the intensive care environment for many years to come allowing for the predicted increase of patients requiring critical care year on year. The increase in isolation facilities will triple the number of infectious disease patients who could be managed appropriately within the critical care.
New names for Scarborough Hospital wards
Four wards at Scarborough Hospital have been renamed, bringing them all into line under the theme of nature.
The new names have been chosen by the staff who work there.
Ann Wright Ward will remain medical and is now known as Juniper Ward, while Willow EAU will remain the day case return for the emergency assessment unit and is renamed as Hazel. The stroke unit has changed to Mulberry Ward, and finally the Duke of Kent children’s ward is now called Rainbow Ward thanks to suggestions from their patients.
Lottery
York & Scarborough Hospitals Charity has launched a weekly lottery to help support local hospitals. You can join the weekly lottery for less than £5 a month, with the first 500 people to join receiving one of our brand new charity pin badges as a thank you!
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