Further funding needed to improve patient and staff lives at Scarborough Hospital's new centre

Scarborough Hospital's new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre needs help with improving patient and staff lives.

It is currently being built but around £400,000 is needed to provide 'extra bits' that go 'above and beyond'.

It will see those 'nice to haves' like gardens which will enable people to get fresh air from hospital beds.

Maya Liversidge, community fundraiser for Scarborough Hospital, said: "We're looking at a dedicated paediatric waiting area so it's going to have facilities in to basically keep children entertained with nice, friendly decorations. It'll also take them away from seeing the other patients who are waiting. There's going to specialist rooms for those patients who potentially feel uncomfortable coming into A&E because they may have unseen disabilities.

"There's going to relatives rooms in our intensive care unit suites where families and loved ones can stay over so they're close by. Something that really came from feedback from staff and patients during Covid was garden space. We're going to have two gardens downstairs on the ground floor and then a terraced roof garden on the first floor.

"Staff in ICU and coronary care in the new upstairs bit are going to be able to go out and get fresh air. It means we can wheel patients out on beds because sometimes we have patients who are in for such a long time, and they don't get to feel the basic of fresh air on their face, hear the birds, the traffic and just all those things we take for granted.

"Staff had a huge say in the build, especially the A&E staff who've looked at what would improve how they feel at work but also commented on everything that would make their patients feel better. We don't like the fact that they have to wait for so long in a very 1980s waiting area and we want to improve that."

Anyone who wishes to help and donate can do so on the Scarborough Hospital charity appeal website.

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