New Dover Hospital

Introduction

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust welcomes you to view the plans for the new Dover Hospital. We have included artist’s impressions of what the building will look like, floor plans, lists of services we will be providing, transport plans and the construction plan.

The Trust’s mission is ‘To provide safe, patient focused and sustainable health services with and for the people of Kent. In achieving this, we acknowledge our special responsibility for the most vulnerable members of the population we serve’.

Forthcoming changes to the Health Service will mean that local GPs will have more say in how services are provided, and they have formed Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) to carry out this work. Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust and the recently formed CCG’s have been explicit in their continued intent to commission locally-provided, quality, acute hospital services for the people of Dover district.  The local Commissioners have been working closely with EKHUFT to plan for the future health needs for this area.  

The Trusts’ aims are to provide around 85% of all outpatient services for Dover district from healthcare facilities located in Dover.  The future facilities are to include a wide range of co-located diagnostic services as well as renal dialysis services, child health ambulatory services and minor injuries services.

The local CCG’s have been involved with the planning of the proposed developments at Dover. During the summer of 2012, the Trust met with the CCG lead for the Dover and Deal locality to share the plans for the new Dover site. Those plans were well received. The plans were also well received by the CCG representative from the Swale locality.  The Trust will continue to involve the local CCG representatives throughout the remainder of the planning process.

Services to be provided

The following clinical departments are to be provided in the new Hospital:

• Physiotherapies department (all adult therapy services);
• Activities of Daily Living (ADL);
• Renal Dialysis unit;
• Children's ambulatory care;
• Day hospital;
• Adult Ambulatory care provided by multi-disciplinary services to include medical treatment and procedure rooms;
• Pharmacy pod/ retail outlet;
• Maternity ante-natal and day care services;
• Radiology to support a 1 stop OPD model (plain x-ray and ultrasound)
• Hard standing for a Mobile MRI;
• Pathology point of care testing to support the 1 stop model;
• Health Records;

As well as meeting the needs of Commissioners, EKHUFT recognises its responsibility to ensure appropriate healthcare services are provided locally for the people of Dover district.  These services will aim to meet the ever increasing and changing needs of the local population.

The commissioning intentions of the Dover and Aylesham consortium (published July 2008) give three primary areas of opportunity for improving healthcare in Dover and the surrounding area:

• Deliver more services locally in Dover;
• Improve accessibility of services which are delivered outside Dover; and
• Improve overall service performance and continuity of care.

The Outpatient department will provide outpatient services for:

• Anti Coagulant;
• Cardiology;
• Dermatology;
• Endocrinology;
• ENT (including Audiology for both adults and paediatrics);
• Orthotics;
• Gastroenterology;
• General Medicine and Colorectal;
• Maxillofacial Unit including Orthodontics;
• Ophthalmology;
• Pain Management;
• Phlebotomy:
• Respiratory;
• Rheumatology;
• Trauma and orthopaedics;
• Breast;
• Renal Haemodialysis;
• Women’s Health (Gynaecology and Colposcopy);
• Health Care of the Older Person (HCOOP);
• Pre-assessment.