Snapshot Report

One of our digital aspirations for the new hospital is to have a Digital Twin, which is a 4D virtual model of the physical hospital building, to help us monitor the location of hospital equipment, the building’s energy consumption and give us an opportunity to optimise staff rostering among other benefits. A Digital Twin can be a powerful tool and we are working with our Lead Advisor, Currie & Brown, to produce a Digital Twin Strategy to help us look at ‘the art of the possible’ for the new hospital.

Settlement works have begun in partnership with I&H Brown, to prepare the land at the Wester Moffat site for the planned start of construction in 2025. This work involves clearing the site of any obstructions, digging up earth and piling it to enable testing to be done to check the bearing capacity of the earth. Work has also taken place on the site to demolish the existing farmhouse on the property to make way for the new building. Read more here – Site of new hospital comes alive as preparatory work carried out

(from left) Donald Reid, NHS Lanarkshire Board non-executive director and Chair of the Board sub-committee that provides governance on the MRP; Colin Lauder, NHS Lanarkshire Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Planning, Property and Performance; Dean Molloy, from contractor I&H Brown

We are now reaching the end of stage 3 of the design reviews at 1:50 scale. A tremendous amount of work has gone into reviewing each room in the hospital (around 5000) to agree the spatial co-ordination and digital requirements for each. We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has given their time and experience to make these workshops a success. We are very grateful.

We continue to engage with both clinical and non-clinical teams across the hospital to understand pressure areas and any service redesign which will impact on workforce going forward. Use of workforce planning tools, existing guidelines and professional judgement has enabled us to complete a first draft of the workforce plan for the project’s Full Business Case. We will continue to refine the workforce plan as more information becomes available throughout the process.