The Leicester Endoscopy Decontamination Unit at Glenfield Hospital was built to clean the endoscopes used in the city’s three hospitals and other medical facilities in Leicestershire and Rutland.
The demand for gastrointestinal endoscopy is expected to rise in coming years thanks to more screening for cancer and other diseases.
Each endoscope needs specialist washing between uses and the new decontamination unit houses 10 sterilising units.
The project for the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust includes a 993 square metre central processing area plus staff welfare accommodation, trolley wash rooms, storage rooms, chemical stores, offices and showers.
The service had previously been delivered from a series of sub-standard satellite units scattered around the wider Leicester area, including a large mobile decontamination unit at Glenfield Hospital.
The new facility has modernised the processing of the endoscopes and increased the cleaning capacity and service resilience. A team of 50 works at the unit, which can prepare up to 50,000 endoscopes per year.
| Client: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust |
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| Contractor: Galliford Try Building East Midlands |
| Architect: P+HS Architects |
| Project manager: Rider Levett Bucknall |
| Structural engineer: Sir Frederick Snow and Partners |
| Structural engineer: Pick Everard |
| Services engineer: DSSR Consulting Engineers |
| Mechanical Engineer: Mellor Bromley |
| Electrical Engineer: Electract |
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