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Standing at the front of the main hospital site, the Louisa Martindale Building will offer state of the art accommodation for outpatient, ward and specialist services across its 11 floors. It is the first stage of the 3Ts Redevelopment of the hospital.
The Louisa Martindale Building is the newest clinical building in NHS England. Alongside it is the Barry Building, the oldest.


Moving services into the new facility will empty the Barry Building and those around it. Patients will go from a building that opened in 1828 to one opening in April 2023, 195 years in a single journey.



Wards will be in the upper half of the new building and patients will have some stunning sea views.
Many of the wards moving in will have five times as much space per bed.
Outpatient services in the building will be in spacious, purpose designed departments in the lower half of the building.
They will be closer to the building’s main entrance and the underground car park that is for patients and visitors only.
Find out which wards and departments are moving into the Louisa Martindale BuildingThe Intensive Care Unit and the High Dependency Unit services will be moving from the Thomas Kemp Tower into a single floor, level 7 of the new building.
All our Neuroscience services, that have been on different sites for years, will be under the same roof in the Louisa Martindale Building.
Outpatient services from the Barry Building and the buildings around it (like Ear, Nose and Throat) will move in the first half of April. All the wards (inpatient services) will move in the second half of the month.
Who was Dr Louisa Martindale CBE?
Read about Dr Louisa Martindale and why we are recognising her in the naming of our new building at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
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