NELFT provides an extensive range of integrated community and mental health services for people living in the London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest and community health services for people living in the south west Essex areas of Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock.

Neilcott has been appointed following a competitive single stage procurement to undertake design and construction of an Integrated Medical Centre (IMC) in Corringham. The Corringham facility is the first of four IMCs to be built across the borough, with the others due to be built in Grays, Tilbury and Purfleet. The new IMCs will bring together a range of services under one roof, including blood tests, mental health services for adults and children and other primary care services.  As Principal Contractor, Neilcott is responsible for developing and completing the design from RIBA stage 4, working with the project’s original architect Frank Shaw Associates to retain valuable project knowledge within the team.

The Scope
The new two-storey integrated medical centre will provide 1220m2 of purpose-built new facilities and associated external works. Key features of the design:

• Space for two branch GP practices – 4,000 list size
• Ability for all rooms to be multi-use – shared clinical space
• Range of meeting rooms types/spaces
• Three large group rooms (with retractable walls), for use across all key stakeholders and the local community group
• Shared clinical and non-clinical space
• Hook up facilities for mobile units – increases the range of clinical services e.g. Community dental services, BTUH/MSE services
• Staff beverage and rest area

In addition to providing ample clinical space on the ground floor and part of the first floor, the centre will provide the following flexible multi-use space:

• Agile desk spaces
• 1-1 spaces
• Meeting rooms of various sizes
• Break out area