Designing the future: care closer to home.
According to its architects, Maber, the Corby Urgent Care Centre is "the first of its kind, providing a combination of primary and emergency care facilities in a community-focused building that patients and staff agree is friendly, welcoming, and 'unlike a hospital'." Since it opened in February 2013, the Centre has almost doubled its visitor targets, and helped take NHS Corby CCG into the top 10 per cent of performers in England for (lower) A&E attendance. The architects report.
D003153:Community Health Services; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D004739:England; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017060:Patient Satisfaction