Integrated Health Projects (IHP) has been awarded the contract to build a new emergency care and joint initial assessment unit at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has secured £26m of Government funding to progress the scheme, which will integrate medical and surgical care on one site. 

The 2,442sq m facility will link up the current emergency department footprint, connecting the new urgent treatment centre (UTC) via a corridor.

The new ‘integrated front door’ enabling works are now well underway, with piling due to start next month, led by IHP, a partnership between VINCI Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine.

Russell Flowers, regional director for VINCI and IHP, said: “We are looking forward to working with the trust to develop on what is already a strong relationship, having just completed the new UTC building – the first phase of this project.

“Our teams have worked together with the departmental heads developing the project on paper and we can’t wait to bring the scheme to life and improve the staff and patient working and treatment environment.”

IHP will complete this latest project in the summer of 2024, with the scheme procured via the P22 Framework.