Assessment unit meets Trust ambitions.

The quality of the care environment within a new 16-bedded modular-built ward, the Gilwern Assessment Unit, at Hereford County Hopsital, has won widespread praise from the clinicians and nurses staffing it--many of whom were recruited specially to work in it. The impressive new single-storey assessment unit for frail, older patients--which admitted its first patients just before Christmas--is formed from 14 separate modules erected offsite, delivered individually on low-loaders, craned into position, and then finished and fitted out to an extremely high standard, by off-site building specialist, MTX. The new ward was completed on budget to an extremely tight schedule, met--thanks to excellent teamwork--despite the added complication of the unit being built over a former burial ground.