Catterick Integrated Care Campus

Location: Catterick
Sector: Defence, Health
Division: Regional Building

Construction has started on the flagship NHS and Ministry of Defence (MOD) Health Care Campus in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. The joint and bespoke project between the MOD and NHS will deliver transformative integrated health and care services to the military and civilian communities of Catterick, North Yorkshire, and the wider Richmondshire areas.

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The Catterick Integrated Care Campus is a first of its kind MOD-NHS partnership and will enable shared estate, expertise and learning to optimise the health and care services for people across the area.

The services delivered from the Catterick Integrated Care Campus will include:

General practice services including out of hours
Other clinical services such as: sexual health, orthopaedics, heart failure, horizons drugs and alcohol, pain management, and others
Imaging and other diagnostic services such as: X-ray, ultrasound, audiology
Community services such as paediatrics, adult and child mental health, physiotherapy/ rehabilitation, speech and language therapy, NHS dentistry provision for adults and children with a disability or serious mental illness
Social prescribing services which help people in non-medical ways that support their health and wellbeing
Defence health recovery group teams: defence occupational health team, defence primary care rehabilitation service, community mental health
Military occupational dentistry

The MOD’s Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) awarded the design and construction contract to Tilbury Douglas, which includes a substantial commitment to social value. Subcontractors from within a 50-mile radius of Catterick are being prioritised for this work to support local business and veterans.

£88m

Project value

June 2026

Expected completion date

NHS / MOD

Client

An enhanced stakeholder engagement plan was vital from day one. With multiple stakeholders in the scheme, design reviews were required from up to 14 separate groups (MOD/NHS/3^rd parties) at each design gateway.

Initial engagements focussed upon building and service requirements, delivering the best design solution to meet stakeholders needs and wants. This included using health care planners and bubble diagrams to analyse staff and patient travel times, flows and adjacencies.

Stakeholders were engaged with, their individual views and thoughts understood and then co-ordinated into one common design and facility.

Engagement workshops were repeated up to four times with each stakeholder to discuss, review and refine proposals for both the 1:100 and 1:50 drawings and C sheets (Room Loaded Drawings). Sign-off was not until we were all happy as a team that we had achieved our goals and aims set out at the initial engagement workshop.

“I would like to pass on my sincere thanks and gratitude to the whole team for the progress that has been made, the design as it stands is fantastic. To get to the point where we have is really exciting, not just for me personally, but all of the staff in DPHC(N) who deserve a healthcare facility of this stature. Their reactions when you walked them through the building said it all. Thank you all for your hard work, professionalism and perseverance. I look forward to continuing to work with you in developing the design and delivering it over the next two years.”

Andrew J Smart I DPHC, Operations Manager North of England, Ministry of Defence

This modern healthcare facility also meets the exacting standards of the MOD Counter Terrorism Measure (CTM), JSP440 Approved Document. This was a major consideration in building design to avoid any impact upon the healthcare environment within.

The core design elements of the building including structure envelope, façade, interiors, external works are all subject to the CTM requirements, dictating methodology and material choice.

Envelope and façade elements and panels have all been ballistically tested successfully off site to meet JSP 440 guidance. A full CTM strategy document has been produced and approved by the DIO / MOD.

We have maintained the clinical use, look and feel of the healthcare facility creating safe, open and inviting environments, including atriums and waiting zones, for both staff and patients.

Externally, ‘layered’ CTM protection within the hard and soft landscaping, provides the necessary CTM robustness and stand-off limitations for vehicles while keeping the areas inviting, calming and attractive.

Designed to meet the latest Building Regulations, NHS and MOD Primary Healthcare standards, the new Integrated Care Campus aims to be one of the first facilities of this type and scale to meet Net Zero Carbon (NZC) standards and achieve an Excellent rating under the MOD DREAM design standard. Designed with climate change and resilience in mind, the building will feature green technologies such as low energy lighting, intelligent building management systems, electric vehicle charging points, green roofs, sustainable drainage systems (SUDs), off-site fabrication and roof mounted photovoltaic panels.

Design of efficient fabrics and systems has helped to optimise performance. The impact of the CTM within the design has meant offsetting is required to achieve NZC in operation.

Whole Life Carbon (WLC) is the project’s combined emissions including construction, operation, refurbishment and end of life. Achieving WLC Net Zero is our primary aim and target and a significant challenge requiring the combined efforts of all stakeholders and consultant team, with remaining carbon emissions to be offset and assessed.

DREAM is the MOD equivalent of BREEAM. We were challenged with achieving DREAM Excellent, a score beyond 70%. Early engagement with the full client and consultant design team during Stage 3 agreed and set targets against each element including energy, environment, procurement and water etc.

Pre-assessment figures of 73% have been set at design stage and we are on course to achieve this.