The Venesta Vepps Healthcare range was heavily used throughout the wards ensuite, shower and dirty utility rooms.

Vepps Boxed-Out Unit
& Vepps Wall System

The project
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital forms part of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, providing a wide range of planned and emergency services.

Dr. Elizabeth Aitken, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Medical Director explained that "the facility often receives more ambulances than any other hospital in London and in the past we simply haven’t had enough space for all their patients after they have been seen in A&E." This has warranted the construction of two new short-stay inpatient wards.

The challenge
To compensate a tight schedule, Vinci Construction offered an alternative solution to the original specification, having previously used Venesta pre-assembled products. With the hospital working hard to ensure infection prevention, it was essential that the new wards were equipped with the right tools to encourage good hand hygiene among staff, in their various day-to-day interactions with patients.

The solution
The Vepps Healthcare range was heavily used throughout the ward's ensuite, shower and dirty utility rooms. All sanitaryware was pre-plumbed and tested at their manufacturing facility, saving time and reducing labour required on-site through their click-fix technology. By choosing Vepps, the installation could be achieved up to 50% faster than other traditional methods.

Vinci’s Commercial Director, Kevin Millen, was especially pleased with the product's contribution, stating "the pre-installed sanitaryware provided a better quality finish and a programme advantage." This underpins the beauty of Vepps, which has been specifically engineered to achieve the highest quality finish in the shortest amount of time on site.

Venesta supplied more than 40 Boxed-Out Hand Washing Units, to suit various clinical purposes and provide staff with plenty of opportunities to stay sanitised. With so many units, the hospital required hassle-free maintenance, which was achieved with their linear-bearing hinged and lockable duct access panels that require no manual handling.

Vepps has proven to be the best solution for this project in terms of quality and speed, the two major contributors to the success of delivering this new healthcare facility.