Department of Health: The Paddington Health Campus Scheme

part oneIntroduction1.1 The Paddington Health Campus scheme, firstproposed in 1998, was aimed at bringing together,on a single Campus in the Paddington Basin, theclinical services of St Mary’s NHS Trust and theRoyal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust – alongsidenew research facilities for Imperial College’s Facultyof Medicine, moved from the Royal Brompton andHarefield campuses. These three organisations arereferred to collectively in this report as the Campuspartners (Figure 2).2The Campus partnersSt Mary’s NHS Trust is a large teaching hospital employing3,300 staff. It is a multi-site Trust which largely occupies outdatedand run-down accommodation in and around Paddington.More than 60 per cent of the buildings at the Trust were longoverdue for decommissioning with many failing to meet Healthand Safety and Disability Discrimination Act requirements. Thebasic remedial maintenance required to correct unchecked estatedegradation had a cost of almost £74 million and the estimatedcost to update buildings to modern standards was £465 million.The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust was created by aTrust merger in 1998 and provides a complete range of specialistheart and lung services through its 2,300 employees. Doctors andscientists working at the Trust and the National Heart and LungInstitute undertake internationally recognized research into heartand lung disease treatment. Approximately two-thirds of patientaccommodation was both over 70 years old and fell below theminimum suitable condition. 2 The basic remedial maintenancerequired to correct unchecked estate degradation had a cost ofalmost £21 million and the estimated cost to update buildings tomodern standards was £294 million.Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine has aworld-wide reputation as a centre of excellence for teaching andresearch in science and medicine. The Imperial College Facultyof Medicine is one of the largest and most prestigious centresof biomedical research and teaching in the UK, with over700 faculty members active in research. As a result of theproposed moves of the NHS hospitals from the Royal Bromptonand from the Harefield Campuses, it was necessary also torelocate Imperial College’s closely associated research andteaching facilities, particularly its National Heart and LungInstitute, from these campuses to the proposed PaddingtonHealth Campus.Source: 2004 OBC and National Audit OfficeNoteS1 Partnerships UK became a co-sponsor of the Campus scheme with effect from July 2002 when it agreed a Development Partnership Agreement with thetwo NHS Trusts.2 Condition B as defined in NHS Estate Code: sound, operationally safe and exhibits only minor deterioration.The Paddington Health Campus scheme11