High Wycombe Vet Hospital Completes Clinical Expansion And Enhances Offering With New HDU
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Hamilton Specialist Referrals (HSR) has completed a £400,000 redevelopment that has seen the hospital add a state-of-the-art new high dependency unit (HDU) to its offering and expand its footprint by 1,140 sq. ft. This is the second phase in a redevelopment plan that saw the High Wycombe hospital add a new building housing its reception, consult rooms and a separate client space in 2021.
The expansion works came in response to increased demand from first opinion practices in the wider Buckinghamshire area. In addition to the new HDU, the hospital has benefitted from an extra theatre, an expanded space for minor procedures, an endoscopy suite and a medicine prep area, all of which were designed to support HSR’s growing medicine and complex neurology caseloads, as well as the recovery of high dependency patients.
The modern HDU offers 360 degrees of patient access to clinical teams, an important and useful element when dealing with demanding and complex cases. It also allows easy use of incubators for oxygen dependent patients who need an increased level of monitoring during one-to-one nursing.
Purposely situated close to the hospital’s imaging and procedure rooms, the HDU is separate from the existing kennels that cater to routine patients. With its own dedicated staff, dimmable lights and dynamic layout, the new ward space is designed to provide a tailored patient experience for unwell animals requiring a quiet, calm area to be treated.
And feline patients will benefit from a dedicated pod within the HDU ward, supplementing the hospital’s existing cat facilities and allowing for one-to-one clinical care when required.
“Improving our medicine provision has been a major driver of the HDU expansion,” said Michael Hamilton, clinical director at Hamilton Specialist Referrals. “With the way we have grown, we now see an increasing number of critically ill patients and can help many more of them than we would have been able to in the past.
“The extension allows for care to be optimised for complex soft tissue surgery and medicine patients who can be given dedicated nursing and veterinary attention in a quieter, larger and much better equipped space.”
The multidisciplinary team at Hamilton Specialist Referrals offers orthopaedics, neurology, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, oncology and rehabilitation and the hospital is fully operational and open for referrals from first-opinion vets in the surrounding areas. For more information visit https://www.hamiltonspecialists.vet/.
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