The Barry Building on the Royal Sussex County Hospital campus was built in 1828 and the adjoining Jubilee Building in 1887.
These buildings currently contain medical, elderly care, cancer, infectious diseases and HIV inpatient wards as well as the main imaging department and the cardiac investigations service. The buildings are ageing, cramped and providing our patients with even the most basic levels of privacy and dignity is extremely difficult.
There are currently only 10 single rooms (5% of the beds) in the Barry Building, there is only one toilet available for every four patients and patients often need to walk across wards and corridors to reach their nearest toilet and bathroom facilities.
The wards in both buildings are small (some examples shown in the photos below). There are fewer than 20 beds per ward in the Barry Building and fewer than 9 in the Jubilee Building. These wards are inefficient to staff and the beds are too close together which means maintaining good infection control practice is also much more difficult than in bigger, more modern facilities.
Our planned redevelopment will address all of these issues. The new development will include 32- bed wards; 75% of the beds on the medical and elderly care wards will be provided in single, en-suite rooms and toilets and bathrooms will be easily accessible to all patients.
