Gilling Dod News Archive

Nightingale Centre

20th / December / 2009

Macmillan Quality Environment Mark Award

Gilling Dod Architects are delighted to confirm that the Nightingale Centre has been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark following a recent assessment. This award recognises building and service excellence within health and social care and therefore indicates that we are achieving the very highest standards in cancer building excellence.

13th / December / 2009

New build Rehabilitation Mental Health Unit

Gilling Dod Architects teamed up with Costain as PSCP on our latest Procure 21 project. The team has been appointed to deliver a new build Rehabilitation Mental Health Unit on the St Georges Hospital site, on behalf of The Lincoln Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Completion is due end of 20011/early 2010.

Whitehaven

20th / August / 2009

Redevelopment of West Cumberland Hospital

Gilling Dod has been appointed as Lead Consultant / Architect in association with John Cooper Architecture with Laing O'Rourke the selected Procure21 Team for the redevelopment of West Cumberland Hospital. The £65 Million build cost, overall £100 Million scheme which is now underway is due to be complete by Christmas 2012.

3 Shires Mental Health PFI

29th / June / 2009

3 Shires batched Mental Health PFI

The last part of the 3 shires batched Mental Health PFI has now been handed over to the client. The £20m development on the Kingsway site in Derby provides inpatient mental health accommodation for 60 older persons with Dementia and mobility issues. There is also an extensive support services building which provides all the FM and Therapy services for the development.

Calverton

2nd / June / 2009

Gilling Dod receives an LABC Award

On 21st May, Gilling Dod Architects received an LABC award for the Calverton Hill Hospital scheme in Nottinghamshire. The Hospital is a 64 bed Mental Health Unit for private health care providers, Partnerships in Care and is located on a rural site near the village of Calverton, to the north of Nottingham.
The scheme received the Gold Standard from the Local Building Excellence Awards, 2009, for work carried out within Newark and Sherwood and Calverton District Councils.

John Mawson

27th / March / 2009

Appointment of New Managing Director

As part of Gilling Dod's planned retirement strategy Brian Clarke will be retiring from the Board of Directors at the end of May 2009.

Brian has been a Director for over 21 years and Managing Director since 2004 and is a well known figure in healthcare design circles in the North West. He has championed the successful raising of Gilling Dod's profile in many areas of the business.

John Mawson will take over as Managing Director from 31st March 2009 and will continue to develop the business supported by fellow Directors - Charles Adnett, Bryan Pullan, Andrew Arnold and Sean Kember.

Charity Bike Ride

5th / January / 2009

Charity Bike ride 2008 - Final Total announced.

Following Gilling Dod Architect's Charity Cycle ride in the Summer the final amount has now been confirmed. Almost £3,000 was raised for Christies Hospital by the event which entailed a 60 mile cycle ride from Manchester to Blackpool. A team of 24 riders from Gilling Dod took part with the overall event attracting nearly 4000 entrants back in July. A sincere heartfelt thanks to all the people who kindly sponsored the team and indeed to all the riders and support crew who took part. The Practice is looking to enter a team again this year for the same event.

Newton Community Hospital

1st / December / 2008

Newton Community Hospital

One of the country’s first Community Hospitals is now up and running and accepting patients. The Newton Community Hospital in St Helens is a flagship development for the region and follows a £10 million capital investment by Halton and St Helens NHS Primary Care Trust.

The 4000m2 new facility was designed by Gilling Dod Architects and was constructed on time and to budget by Galliford Try. The new building will house a GP Practice and enables the PCT to offer a range of services including out posted hospital based services, 30 Intermediate Care beds, diagnostic services, x-ray, Ultra-sound and ECG facilities under one roof. The new building will be owned by Partners 4 LIFT and maintained by Kiers Facilities Management and was one of numerous schemes delivered this way in the area.

The bespoke state of the Art design was developed following close working with clinicians, staff and end users attending a number of detailed Users Groups to look at specific issues relating to the Service Model. There was also considerable input from CABE. Now in full occupation the facility is getting rave reviews from staff and patients alike as it establishes itself as a pivotal Health Facility located in the heart of the Community it serves.

28th / May / 2008

Wythenshawe Breast Care Unit

The Wythenshawe Breast Care Unit was recently formally handed over as part of a £113 million major development on the Wythenshawe Hospital site. We were pleased to be there when Princess Anne visited the new regional heart centre in south Manchester. Cardiologist Dr Richard Levy said "we are delighted that the Princess Royal visited our fantastic new facilities where we will continue to provide world-class services for patients"

The Breast care unit has been purpose designed and includes Europe's first Breast Cancer prevention centre.

27th / November / 2007

125th Year Celebrations

Thanks to the efforts of all who attended at the Palm House, the event raised a total of £1,600 for our chosen charity, BLISS.

BLISS is a charity which supports premature babies and their families. If you would like to see more details of their activities, their website is at http://www.bliss.org.uk/

Well done again, to everyone who contributed.