Devizes Integrated Care Centre is a new healthcare facility for NHS Wiltshire. It provides additional primary care service capacity for the town, urgent care services and modern purpose-built accommodation for the services previously delivered at the Devizes Community Hospital with capacity to enable the provision of a broader range of health and social care services for the area.
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The 1,588sqm, two storey building is one of the first of this new type of healthcare facility bringing a wide range of services into the community. Filling a role between a GP surgery and a community hospital, the building has no wards but provides a range of outpatient and GP services. Accommodation includes a number of shared use Consulting / Examination / Physiotherapy Rooms, a dedicated Treatment Room, Audiology Room, Podiatry Room, Physiotherapy Group Room and two Phlebotomy Rooms in addition to generous patient waiting areas and support accommodation.
DKA were initially involved with the early feasibility stages of the project and led the consultant team appointed by Kier under the ProCure22 Framework from Stage 3 onwards. The design commenced at the detail level; three rounds of consultation meetings were held over 6-8 weeks with the health organisations providing each service. Using tried and tested standard room types, we quickly developed fully loaded room layouts to the correct size down to the fixtures, fittings and finishes.
After three months the overall layout and envelope was redesigned to address budget constraints and we had signed-off Room Data Sheets and Room layouts for each room in the building due to DKA’s ability to quickly deliver a compliant and cost-effective design strategy. A planning application was submitted and DKA then produced more detailed information to support market testing by the contractor to obtain prices as part of the open book costing exercise. The building is certified as BREEAM Excellent and is intended to be Net Zero Carbon in operation.
