NLA Awards 2024 Shortlisted
- Category: Awards
- Date Published: 20th August 2024
The NLA Awards shortlist has just been released and the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People for South London and Maudsley Hospital has been shortlisted within the Healthcare category.
The Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People was developed by the NHS South London in partnership with Kings College and the Maudsley Charity, and designed by IBI Group, to deliver 9,662ssqm of new healthcare floorspace. The Centre will provide comfortable spaces including diagnostic facilities; collaboration hubs; outpatient consultation spaces; research and office space; inpatient bedrooms and therapy spaces; flexible activities spaces including games room.
This is a unique project and a significant undertaking for NHS South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust, which provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. The trust is formed of 4,600 staff who serve a local population of 1.3 million people; offering more than 230 services. These services are a vital lifeline ever-growing number of children and young adults with mental health disorders. The ambition is to be world-leaders in mental health care and treatment and to ultimately halve the time it takes to discover new treatments to help children and young people with mental health difficulties.
By working closely together, experts from these organisations will collaborate on groundbreaking research to better understand the causes of mental ill health and opportunities for early intervention.
This centre will be part of the wider regeneration area for the Denmark Hill Campus East and include health, research and education facilities. The site will be the house of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School, an Ofsted outstanding school for children and young people to ensure the continuation of inpatients and outpatients’ education during treatment.
This project is essential to delivering specialist services for children and young people dealing with mental health illnesses, and will rationalise many services currently provided in Mapother House and Michael Rutter Centre at the north of the site, which will be redeveloped for much needed housing.
Profits from this scheme will help fund future phases of the sitewide masterplan leading to further improvements to facilities and patient care within the campus to deliver world-class facilities for the local community.
