Blackpool Victoria is a large acute hospital that treats more than 80,000 day-case and inpatients and more than 200,000 outpatients from across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre every year. Its A&E Department is one of the busiest in the country with more than 80,000 attendances every year. The hospital has 767 beds and employs more than 3,000 members of staff. It provides a wide range of services from Maternity to Care of the Elderly, and from Cancer Services to Heart Surgery.

LOC Associates has been providing a multi-disciplinary framework of professional services for Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust since 2003, and have recently had their framework extended with the Trust.

This project involved an extensive refurbishment of two existing Cardiac Operating Theatres for the re-provision of a new Ultra-clean Orthopaedic Theatre Suite. The project encompassed state of the art Ultra-clean and Ventilation Theatre Services to fully comply with the most current Health Technical Memorandum guidance for such a facility. The Ultraclean Theatre and associated Ventilation Systems were designed, manufactured and installed through a NAM/T Subcontractor agreement to the standard form of Contract.

The project itself was delivered to an extremely demanding programme of only 14 weeks, which equated to a considerable amount of site presence and coordination by LOC Associates and their respective Design Team Consortium to ensure that this was achieved.

The Suite itself comprises principally of; 2no. Orthopaedic Ultra-clean Operating Theatres, associated Anaesthetic Preparation Rooms, 5 Persons Stage-One Recovery Area, Theatre Utility Areas, Theatre / Clinical Storage Areas, Male & Female Staff Change areas plus ancillary accommodation.

Launch Case Study for Orthapaedic Ultraclean Theatres (PDF)