Thought leadership: Healthcare as a pillar of the community

Satellite MPR has been working with TODD Architects’ healthcare team to develop thought leadership content on healthcare’s role in revitalising ailing town centres and high streets.

Our copywriting team was enlisted to produce a piece for the SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, ahead of the Healthy City Design Congress, that considered NHS England’s plan to tackle the 6.1 million-strong treatment backlog and the huge waiting lists for non-urgent hospital care in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic by setting set up at least 100 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) and surgical hubs by early 2025.

“Using ailing high streets and shopping centres to create walk-in clinics, diagnostic and elective care facilities, as well as GP group practices, is a sensible proposition and should be part of the healthcare rescue plan in the UK, as well as local authorities’ town centre recovery plans. In addition to being able to walk to a cafe to meet friends, visit the local cinema, and play an active role in the community, having easy access to healthcare provision could be a positive influencer in bringing footfall back into town centres” - Andrew Murray, Director, TODD Architects

Drawing on TODD Architects’s extensive experience in the design and delivery of healthcare schemes throughout the UK, the article examines some of the hurdles to the successful delivery of community-based primary and elective care and offers up examples of solutions. You can read the full article HERE

Kings Hall Health & Wellbeing Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sets a benchmark for community-integrated health and social care. TODD Architects has been working with healthcare developer Benmore Octopus on the design of the masterplan to regenerate the Kings Hall site as part of a dynamic residential, lifestyle, leisure and wellbeing park.