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
Tower HamletsEast London
Tower Hamlets PCT and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have developed a joint 10 year strategy for improving health and well being in Tower Hamlets. This strategy envisages a new model of integrated and modernised services to be available near peoples' homes. The first of these developments consists of a primary healthcare centre plus housing.Description
The developments offers an excellent opportunity to provide an innovative approach to primary care by using teams of healthcare professionals that focus on planned care and urgent / unplanned care, in separate ways.The aim is to provide a health as well as an illness service, where every interaction with a patient becomes an opportunity to improve their long term health. We also wanted to make the illness service as high-quality as possible. To do this, we wanted to focus on consultations, on getting clinician-patient contacts right. The building will help do this by facilitating the sorts of contacts and consultations we are striving for.
The building design and model of care works against the inverse-care law usually in operation in health services: reversing the usual system of the least needy using the most services.
The building will be welcoming, especially to those with the highest health needs, including the elderly and parents of young children, and fit in well with the local community. The Centre will have active links with, for example, the school and children’s centres and other community and social services and other outside agencies.
Project Status:
Under Construction
Project Type:
Primary Healthcare Centre
Contract Value:
£25m
Area:
4 x 2500 – 3500m2
