St Lukes Hospital

St Luke’s Hospital is a Victorian Mental Health Hospital in Middlesbrough, much altered over the years, and sited alongside the new James Cook University Hospital — a large acute tertiary centre. St Luke’s provides a range of care for adult, elderly and learning disability mental health conditions and, in addition, provides the Regional Medium Secure Unit.

P+HS have a long and successful history of working with the Trust, carrying out a range of new and upgrading projects on this site and elsewhere in their estate. In 2004 we started to develop strategies for the replacement of St Luke’s with a complete new hospital, by redeveloping the existing site. The Trust developed a new model of care delivery and key to establishing the brief were a range of stakeholder workshops run by P+HS with service users, staff, clinicians, carers and estates personnel.

The new hospital is being procured through the government’s PFI model and P+HS prepared the design for the Public Sector Comparator for this new £78m redevelopment. The PSC was one of the first developed under the NHS’s new rules “Design Brief Framework for PFI Public Sector Comparators at OBC Stage”, where detailed briefing and design coding provided guidance to the bidding teams.

The scheme explored a range of concepts with the briefing team, including single bedrooms with ensuite facilities throughout, the concept of publicly-accessible facilities within the heart of a mental health facility, inpatient accommodation on upper floors and the hierarchy of public, semi-public and private external spaces.