Tomorrow's NUH (TNUH) is the name of our programme to redevelop both the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and the City Hospital, creating improved environments that will enable us to respond to changes in health needs and medical advances, and to continue providing the right care for our local communities long into the future. It is part of the Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP), which is investing in buildings and equipment across the NHS, to ensure that our healthcare system and staff have the facilities they need for the future.
Currently, we have some duplication of services across our two large hospital sites, and have services which should ideally be co-located, at the moment situated on opposite sides of the City Hospital. Our ageing estate makes it difficult for us to deliver modern healthcare in the way we would like to – many of our buildings were designed at a different time to care for fewer patients with different needs than those of today. In addition, as new treatments and technologies unheard of five or ten years ago are introduced, it is also important that our health and care services change too.
We also want to use our staff and resources in the most efficient ways, and we want to make sure we are creating opportunities within our local community as an employer of choice, while building on our reputation as a world-class teaching and research institution, so we attract new clinical talent to the region.
Through the Tomorrow’s NUH Programme investment, we have the opportunity to help address these issues and want to:-
- Improve the way we manage the care of patients in an emergency by increasing the range of emergency care we provide at the QMC.
- Provide new facilities for women, children and families, bringing these together on a single hospital site (QMC).
- Provide a centre of excellence at the City Hospital for planned (elective) care.
- Develop best-in-class cancer services at both the City Hospital and the QMC sites and in the community.
- Transform outpatient services to provide patients with high quality care at the right time, and in the right place.
Our proposals, in summary:-
Through the TNUH programme we also have the opportunity to review the services currently delivered from Ropewalk House and consider the right location for these in the future.
