Our plans for Grimsby Hospital will see us making significant improvements, building a number of new, purpose built facilities and extensively refurbishing our existing buildings.
All our new facilities have been designed in consultation with our nursing and clinical teams to ensure they have what they need to provide you with the very best care, both now and in the future.
And some of those facilities are already up and running.
Our new £8-million MRI suite was opened in April 2021 – doubling our scanning capability on our Grimsby site.
And our £1.9 million Coastal CT Suite also welcomed its first patients in January 2021.
Heart of our plans
At the heart of our programme are exciting plans to create a new multi-million pound Emergency Department.
Construction of the £30 million development – funded by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care – is almost complete and we’re looking forward to welcoming our first patients next week.
Here’s a video of our Matron Natalie Till, who will take you on a virtual tour:
The 2,255 square metre Emergency Department has been built out from our existing A&E building and includes:
- An increased waiting are to cope with demand and social distancing requirements
- A dedicated play area for our younger patients
- Additional flexible use cubicles, that will make it easier for us to see patients more quickly, whatever their needs
- A dedicated ambulance bay, which will reduce the time it takes to transfer patients in our care.
More to come
Once we have moved into the new Emergency Department, we will begin work on converting our current A&E department into a new Acute Assessment Unit (AAU).
The new unit will be staffed by expert clinicians in a wide variety of disciplines.
This will allow us to diagnose you more quickly and get you on the right course of treatment, without necessarily having to admit you to a ward first in order to access this expertise.
This will help us to reduce the number of people we admit and the amount of time you’re likely to spend in hospital but you’ll still receive excellent standards of care.
The £24.86 million for these units was announced in 2020 and is now in the process of being released to us following the approval of the final business case.
Green future
As part of the project we’ve built a single-storey decked car park outside the main entrance, which opened on February 23.
We’ve also extended the public car park around the Family Services building.
Additional staff parking has also been created behind the restaurant and on the former IT building near the Second Avenue entrance to the site.
We have also invested a further £3.5 million in replacing our fire alarm system and making vital improvements to our water infrastructure.
What’s happening now
Right now our teams are working hard to get all the equipment in place ready for the department to open next week.
I’m coming to Grimsby Hospital – what do I need to know?
You can get all the latest information on parking here
Buses are still coming into the site at the usual times and stop next to the clock tower.
The patient drop off area is on Forsythia Drive (the first left after coming into the site from Scartho Road), opposite the nursery building. This is in close proximity to the ambulance route. Please give way to emergency vehicles and ensure you don’t come into the ambulance bay under any circumstances. To exit, turn right and head back towards Scartho Road, giving way to emergency vehicles.
If you don’t have an issue getting around, why not take advantage of our FREE car park on the former Scartho Baths site off Scartho Road? It’s just a short walk away or, if you’d rather, there’s a bus stop right outside where you can hop on a bus straight into the hospital grounds.
