Warrington Hospital
Same Day Emergency Care Centre

The scheme included the construction of a two-storey extension of the Appleton Building, as well as the construction of a gable end on the building to form extended spaces for waiting, assessment and treatment rooms, new staff rooms and offices.

The ground floor of the 1,170sqm extension is exclusively for patient care and offers urgent ‘hot’ clinics, assessment areas, triage space, ambulatory care and primary care in the expanded and redesigned space.

The second floor is home to administration, equipment and staff rest areas which previously occupied valuable ground floor space in the existing emergency department. This space can now also be used for patients.

The expanded estate also increases capacity to deliver acute care for patients in extreme health emergencies. In addition to the new clinical and assessment space enabling a range of pathways to care, the extension will have a ‘high care’ area for patients presenting with high-risk respiratory and other serious symptoms.