The Cardiac Wing is far too cramped for the needs of modern medicine. There’s not enough space around each bed to fit equipment comfortably, let alone afford families the privacy they need.
The existing wing offers only one third of the recommended space per clinical bed so we have had to move Cardiac Critical Care temporarily to give them more space whilst they wait for new facilities.
Some of our most critically ill children are in the cardiac intensive care ward which also contains vital machines that help children waiting for operations or recovering from procedures.
Our departments are too dispersed. We have world-class doctors, many of them leaders in their field, clocking up corridor miles every week as they walk between the operating theatres, intensive care and wards which are spread right across the hospital site.
Their time could be better spent.
Once the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building has been completed, we will redevelop and refurbish the Cardiac Wing, currently due to open in 2016, at an estimated cost of £130 million.
The new building will be renamed, as it will no longer be solely for cardiac treatment, and will accommodate our remaining acute inpatient wards.
Plans of what will be in the building are currently being finalised. However, it will include
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a same day admissions unit
- neurosciences inpatient wards
the Clinical Investigations Centre
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head and neck inpatient wards
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and some cardiac services
