Stepping Hill hospital is celebrating the completion of a new, temporary department to care for patients with severe illness or injury.

Building contractors Tilbury Douglas have finished work on a building which will eventually become the Same Day Emergency Care Centre; for now, Stepping Hill staff are using it as a temporary 'majors' department.

The Majors Department is for people with very urgent injuries or illness.

This 'handover' from builders to staff follows the recent completion of the new Rapid Assessment Unit in the live campus in December 2023.

The improvements form part of a full-scale remodelling of the existing Emergency Department at the hospital, creating a new Urgent Care Campus. It comprises approximately 2,600sqm of internal refurbishment, along with a remodelling of the existing ambulance drop-off.

Part of the inside of the new majors department at Stepping Hill hospital (Image - Stockport NHSFT)

There will be new assessment, treatment and consultation areas for several key emergency and urgent care services including the children's emergency department, mental health, and medical same day emergency care.

The project also includes 1,300 sqm of new-build development, with 375 sqm of new non-clinical staff accommodation at first floor level.

Once completed, the campus will help to enhance emergency and urgent care for the local population of Stockport, as well as residents in High Peak and Cheshire East, where patients, their families and carers will receive high quality care.

Karen James OBE, Chief Executive of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust said "It is excellent to see another key stage completed in the build of our new emergency and urgent care campus. The Rapid Assessment Unit is already open, and a new Clinical Decision Unit will follow later in the year, all of which will all help us to provide enhanced care to meet the needs of local people." 

Martin Horne, Regional Director of the North West at Tilbury Douglas said "This is another impressive success for the team and an example of how estates and construction partners should collaborate and communicate. The team will continue to embrace the ethos and goals of the trust on future phases, to ensure all patients achieved a seamless journey through their hospital experience."

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