Emergency & Urgent Care Campus

Building work is currently underway on a new Emergency and Urgent Care Campus (EUCC) on the Stepping Hill Hospital site, which will greatly improve care for people in the area.

The new build will enhance emergency and urgent care for the local population of Stockport as well as residents in High Peak and Cheshire East, transforming their local hospitals’ A&E into a more modern and efficient building, where patients, their families and carers can expect to receive high quality care.

 

Campus Design

The design of the campus is centred on patient needs, with the best possible state-of-the-art facilities being made available for staff. It will include new assessment, treatment and consultation areas for several key emergency and urgent care services including the children’s emergency department, mental health, and medical same day emergency care. The development will see the size of the clinical area increase by over 300m², enabling more patients to receive safe care and treatment sooner. 

Extending from the existing A&E, the new building will mean major changes to the front face of the hospital. The whole environment will be more welcoming and visually attractive, making for an improved experience for patients receiving emergency and urgent care.

The building work is being carried out by Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited.

 

Traffic Management

During the construction period traffic routes around the hospital will be effected, and traffic management measures are in place.

The main restrictions during this period for vehicles driven by both staff and members of the public are that there will no longer be the option to wait in vehicles at the Oak House hospital main entrance, and there is now a one-way system in the area between the Poplar Grove entrance and the Bramhall Moor Lane entrance, which includes the Emergency Department (A&E) area. Vehicles can only turn left or right at the Pinewood House bus-stop junction, rather than go straight on.   Vehicles entering the site from the Bramhall Moor Lane entrance will now only be able to turn left. 

This does not apply to ambulanced or other emergency vehicles, construction deliveries and other site specific vehicles, and also does not apply to buses. It has been ensured that all public transport routes to the site are still in place, and additional patient drop-off points have been provided to replace the Oak House hospital main entrance area.

For further information on the new routes and restrictions, please see the map in the links below.

Q&As and other news on the campus building project are also available below.

Thank you for bearing with us during this period, which will result in greatly improved emergency and urgent care services. 

If you have any queries on the building or the project, please e-mail EUCCProject@stockport.nhs.uk

 

Further information 

Emergency and Urgent Care Campus FAQs 30.08.22

Traffic management site map - EUCC construction August 2022

Approval for project press release 06.05.22 - News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 

Traffic management press release 05.08.22 - News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 

Building progress press release 27.02.23 - News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 

Building progress press release - steel signing takes place - 13.06.23 - News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Watch the building progress over a year - timelapse video showing September 2022 - October 2023 - 17.10.23 - News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust  

Building progress press release - light switch-on marks handover of rapid assessment unit - 21.12.23 News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 

Buiding progress press release - handover of temporary majors department - 12.02.24 - News Details - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust