UME have been an essential part of the planning and design team that have translated our vision for primary care
and community services into Health and Well-Being Centres that will be fit for purpose for the future.
Andrew Ridley
Director of Primary Care
Tower Hamlets PCT
Director of Primary Care
Tower Hamlets PCT
Danetre Community HospitalDaventry, Northampton
How UME made a difference
The UME Consortium provided an innovative solution enabling all clinical services to be accommodated within a brand new hospital. The final integrated solution was described by the Trust and its advisors as ‘delivering what they had thought was not possible’.The new hospital is a statement building that opens up vistas for the local streetscape. Visitors are drawn in through the main entrance into a light, two story atrium space. Natural light illuminates the internal spaces which are both flexible and energy efficient with natural ventilation and stepped back elevations. The design has evolved from the patients’ perspective.
The contours of the site have been exploited to reduce the apparent height and mass of the three-storey building and the listed historic façade of the 1820’s workhouse has been sympathetically restored and given greater prominence.
