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Project Whakatuputupu, the New Dunedin Hospital, is led by Te Whatu Ora and includes key stakeholders involved in the planning, design and construction. Aukaha has provided the project with a cultural narrative, Whakatuputupu, that helps inform and guide the design aesthetic, environmental performance and user functionality of our new hospital in Ōtepoti.
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The New Dunedin Hospital will be a modern, efficient and patient-centred teaching hospital. With a five Green Star sustainability rating, the building's design and use of latest technology will mean greater efficiency.
This will include outpatient services, clinic rooms, day surgery facilities and planned radiology.
This will include an emergency department, ICU, operating theatres, inpatient wards and other services including a dedicated primary birthing unit.
The New Dunedin Hospital will be a modern, efficient and patient-centred teaching hospital. With a five Green Star sustainability rating, the building's design and use of latest technology will mean greater efficiency, including patient flow around the hospital and better access to diagnostics and treatment spaces, reducing unnecessary delays.
The new hospital will include 410 beds (compared to 367 beds in the current hospital) and 26 theatre and intervention spaces (compared to 17).
Contemporary design principles have been used so that the theatres can be used in a more efficient way. There are four times as many procedure rooms in the new building design for minor surgery as well as larger day surgery theatres for more complex day surgery cases. The design also incorporates a new surgical short stay unit with 20 beds.
The new hospital’s build programme also delivers a substantial boost to Dunedin’s economy (contributing an estimated $429 million GDP) and will employ local businesses as well as hundreds of construction workers throughout the project.
These discussions help refine how the New Dunedin Hospital can realise the most benefit for staff and patients. Models of care change rapidly within health and bringing together the design team and clinical staff helps shine the light on potential developments or shifts in patient care as the design process continues.
