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What will it look like?

Our new hospital will be a hospital for the future.

Led by our clinicians and an outstanding team of architects, the design of the New Princess Alexandra Hospital will be a far cry from a traditional acute hospital.

Instead, it will be a campus of vitality and wellbeing. A beacon of health for the whole community, set in a therapeutic landscape. It will lead the way for other hospital buildings to follow. An exemplar of modern architecture that will deliver the best setting for our people to deliver the best care for you.

In short, a hospital like no other.

A place doesn’t need to look clinical to be an effective clinical environment. Patients who feel comfortable physically and emotionally will recover quicker. It’s not just about how a place looks, but how it makes us feel.

Midwife

We often think of the NHS as a national sickness service and to turn that around, there’s got to be a leap of the imagination towards a place of enablement, a place where unusual, fantastic and amazing things are possible.

Patient Engagement Team

This is about transforming the way in which healthcare is delivered for our communities and creating a much more modern, much more welcoming place for our patients to be treated and our people to work.

Michael Meredith, Chief Strategy Officer

This new hospital is the cornerstone of our regional economic development plan. It will catalyse a wider programme of regeneration that includes housing, transport infrastructure, jobs and more.

Kevin Bentley, Leader, Essex County Council

Key considerations drive the design of a future-facing new build hospital.

Contact to nature to aid recovery, with stunning outside views, daylight from all directions, green courtyards and gardens

Clear circulation and logistics to make sure routes are logical and straightforward, work flows are separated and way finding is easy.

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