Press release - 16 November 2010
Double design honour for The London Clinic Cancer
Centre
The pioneering design of The London Clinic Cancer Centre has been
honoured at a prestigious awards ceremony to celebrate the latest
innovations in healthcare design. The cancer centre received high
commendations for both the Best Hospital Design and Best Interior
Design categories of the 12th Annual Building Better Healthcare
Awards 2010.
The ceremony, hosted by TV personality and
garden designer Diarmuid Gavin and held in Central London on
Thursday 11 November 2010, saw some of the UK’s leading healthcare
providers, planners, architects and contractors come together to
applaud those who have excelled in improving the healthcare
environment for patients over the past year. The
standard of entries at this year’s awards was at an all time high,
with a record 165 entries.
The £80 million cancer centre, which welcomed
its first patients in December 2009, was designed by Anshen + Allen
– an international architectural practice dedicated to the design
of healthcare, academic and research buildings. The primary
objective of the design was to create a healing and nurturing
environment for cancer patients that could also house
sophisticated, high tech equipment and state-of-the-art treatment
areas. One of the key design features of the building is the
specialist radiotherapy department, which boasts £6 million of new
items of radiotherapy, radiosurgery and imaging equipment, in a
purpose-built underground ‘bunker’.
Malcolm Miller, Chief Executive of The London Clinic comments:
“Receiving not one, but two high
commendations at such a prestigious awards ceremony is an
outstanding achievement. For the cancer centre to be
recognised in this way is a testament to five years of planning,
architectural expertise and sheer hard work from both staff at The
London Clinic and our external partners. Since we have opened
the doors of the new centre, one of the greatest achievements is
the positive feedback from patients and their families who continue
to benefit from the building’s unique combination of pioneering
technology, inspired patient care and clinical expertise.”
The cancer centre, located at 22 Devonshire
Place close to Marylebone High Street, is 7,500m2 built across
eight storeys, three of which are below ground level. With 47
individual bedrooms and 22 day care pods, for patients receiving
chemotherapy and transfusions, the cancer centre is the largest new
build in the private healthcare sector in the past 25
years.
ENDS
For more press information or to request an
interview with a spokesperson from The London Clinic Cancer Centre,
please contact Niki Grant or Jo Hudson at The London Clinic Press
Office on 020 8786 3860/ pressoffice@thelondonclinic.co.uk
Notes to Editors:
- The London
Clinic is the UK’s largest independently-owned non-profit
hospital
- 271 patient rooms
and 12 operating theatres including dedicated endoscopy suites
and
a day
surgery unit
- 24 hour
consultant-led Intensive Care Unit with 11 beds
- As a registered
charity and not-for-profit organisation, The London Clinic is able
to
continuously
reinvest in the latest medical technology, facilities and clinical
and nursing
support
- Highly complex
procedures in addition to routine surgery and medicine such as
live
donor liver
and kidney transplants
- Located on Harley
Street in the heart of London’s medical community
- Long-standing
international reputation attracting leading consultants for over 77
years