Work set to start on Luton Hospital expansion

Kier has been selected by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to design and construct major new 16,700m² clinical buildings at Luton & Dunstable (L&D) University Hospital.

Procured through the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) framework, this project will improve maternity, neonatal, theatres and critical care services, providing new high-tech facilities which will improve staff and patient experience and clinical outcomes. 

The project includes the design and construction of a new acute services block and a new ward block, which will house a delivery suite, the midwifery-led birthing unit, a neonatal intensive care unit with parent accommodation, an ambulatory surgical unit to support day case surgery, theatre suites and a critical care unit.

A new five-storey link building will house three passenger lifts and will blend the new acute services and ward block with the existing hospital.

Liam Cummins, Group Managing Director at Kier Construction, said: “This is a key appointment through the Government’s CCS framework and is one of the 20 projects that the Government announced in August 2019 to receive £850M additional capital funding investment.”

The project will start on site in February and is due for completion in 2024.