Brighton Trauma, Tertiary and Teaching (3Ts) redevelopment

3Ts (Trauma, Teaching and Teaching care)

Project overview

The 3Ts Redevelopment is replacing all the buildings on the front half of the Royal Sussex County Hospital. In their place will be two brand new clinical buildings and a much-needed service yard. The project is also providing a helipad for air ambulances on top of the Thomas Kemp Tower, which is at the heart of the hospital. From there our most severely injured and unwell patients can be taken directly to A&E via dedicated lifts.

The Louisa Martindale Building, which opened in Spring 2023, is the first and largest stage of the Redevelopment. Services moved into the new building made space for Stage 2 of the project on the southwest quarter of the hospital site. Stage 2 will stand on the site formerly occupied by the Barry Building, the oldest NHS ward building in England that opened its doors in 1828, twenty years before Florence Nightingale started nursing.

The new Sussex Cancer Centre will bring outpatient and inpatient services together for the first time. It will have more beds, chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment spaces in a modern, purpose-built hospital. Cancer patients can expect the same quality of healthcare environment that can be found in the Louisa Martindale Building.

The 3Ts Redevelopment is being carried out in three stages to ensure that all our clinical services can continue to run on site during construction.

Together the Louisa Martindale Building and the new Sussex Cancer Centre will take the front half of the hospital from the 19th to 21st Century in just ten years.

Stage 3, the service yard, will replace the existing Cancer Centre on Bristol Gate and make it much easier to meet the day-to-day challenges of running the hospital’s estate.

Key benefits of the redevelopment

Improved hospital experience for hundreds of thousands of patients and visitors every year.
New, state of the art, facilities for a diverse range of services including medical wards, cancer services, critical care, neurosciences, stroke service, imaging, fracture clinic and head and neck outpatients amongst others
200 inpatient beds moved from 19th century buildings into brand new accommodation.
65% of the beds in the new buildings in single, en-suite rooms. The rest will be in single sex, four bedded bays.
Potential to increase capacity for the departments with highest demand, including Cancer Services, Neurosciences, Stroke Services and Intensive Care.
Up-to-date facilities for the hospital’s Major Trauma Centre.
A new helideck for air ambulances to land on the hospital site, rather than in East Brighton Park.
Dedicated patient and visitor parking directly beneath the new buildings.
Improved access to other parts of the hospital from the new main entrance in the Louisa Martindale Building.