Hospital Wards

Accident & Emergency (A&E) wards, including attached Clinical Decision Units (CDUs) for short-term observation, are high-throughput areas designed to rapidly assess, stabilise, and treat patients presenting with urgent conditions. These ward layouts support efficient patient flow from arrival through triage and treatment, typically incorporating resuscitation bays, triage and minor injury rooms, and a short-stay ward for patient observation.

General in-patient wards serve as the primary recovery and care areas, featuring a mix of multi-bed bays and private en-suite rooms to accommodate a variety of clinical needs. Key support spaces, including nurse bases, utility rooms, storage, and staff areas, are integrated to create efficient workflows and a comfortable environment for both patients and healthcare professionals.

ModuleCo’s in-patient wards are designed in compliance with HBN 04-01: Adult In-patient Facilities. They can be scaled and configured from single-storey units to multi-level ward blocks to meet any capacity requirement. Our modules maximise usable footprint, even on constrained sites, and include features such as advanced sound-dampened flooring that minimises noise and vibration, exceeding HTM recommendations to provide a comfortable patient environment.

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are specialised wards for critically ill patients who require continuous monitoring, life support systems and high intensity medical and nursing care, often classified as dependency level 2 or 3. These units are designed with spacious bed bays or individual rooms that can accommodate a wide range of medical equipment, including ventilators, IV pumps and dialysis machines, while allowing full access around each patient for the critical care team.

Our modular ICU solutions fully comply with the exacting standards of HBN 04 02: Critical Care Units, providing the recommended bed space clearances and infrastructure to support enhanced medical gas and electrical services such as 4 bar and 6 bar medical air, additional oxygen and vacuum outlets and multiple electrical circuits at each bedhead.

For neonatal critical care, ModuleCo offers modular Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) designed in accordance with HBN 09 03 guidelines. These units provide appropriate cot space and clinical support areas for newborns across all levels of neonatal care, including special care, high dependency and intensive care, along with specialist family spaces including parents’ overnight rooms.

Isolation wards are designed to safely accommodate patients with highly contagious conditions to prevent cross-contamination. They consist of specialised single-bed rooms with en-suite facilities and often include anteroom lobbies. Each room is engineered to maintain negative air pressure relative to adjoining spaces so that airborne pathogens cannot escape. NHS guidance in HBN 04-01 Supplement 1 outlines the requirements for these specially ventilated isolation facilities.

ModuleCo’s modular isolation ward designs draw on our experience delivering fast-track isolation capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we doubled the UK's HCID capacity in just 10 weeks. Each isolation room is equipped with an independent ventilation system with HEPA-filtered extract to maintain proper negative pressurisation. They are finished with robust, easy-clean surfaces, such as sealed metal ceilings and continuous vinyl flooring, that can withstand intensive decontamination regimes.

Our modular isolation facilities fully comply with HBN and HTM standards and align with international guidelines, including HTM 03-01 and WHO recommendations, for managing high-risk pathogens.

Isolation Wards

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Acute mental health wards provide a therapeutic, secure environment for patients undergoing psychiatric care. The design balances patient comfort with robust safety measures. Modern mental health facilities emphasise creating a calming, normalised atmosphere through natural light, soothing décor, and access to outdoor spaces. Research shows that a well-designed environment can support better patient outcomes and reduce agitation. At the same time, these wards incorporate a wide range of anti-ligature and anti-barricade fixtures to protect patients from self-harm and enable staff intervention when necessary. This includes specialised door hardware, tamper-proof lighting and ventilation grilles, and impact-resistant furnishings.

ModuleCo’s modular mental health units are built to HBN 03-01 standards for adult acute mental health care and can be tailored for various uses, including psychiatric intensive care units, de-escalation suites, observation bays, assessment units, or places of safety. Our design approach focuses on five core principles: providing a high-quality therapeutic space; ensuring patient privacy and dignity through options for private rooms or quiet areas; maintaining the highest levels of security and safety throughout the facility; allowing appropriate cohorting or segregation of patients by gender, risk level, or other factors; and employing architectural features that minimise stressors such as noise and vibration.

Our decant wards and temporary ward hire solutions offer hospitals a fast and flexible way to add or replace inpatient capacity without committing to permanent construction. A decant ward acts as an interim facility to house patients while an existing ward undergoes refurbishment, ensuring continuity of care during estates upgrades.

ModuleCo can provide any type of hospital ward as a temporary facility on a hire basis through our specialist finance partner, MCH. Contract periods range from as short as 12 months up to 15 years. These hire packages include a fully managed service covering bespoke design, off-site manufacture, delivery, installation, and commissioning of the facility, along with the provision of hard and soft facilities management services as required.

Importantly, choosing a hired modular ward involves no compromise on quality or compliance, as temporary units are built to the same state-of-the-art specifications and NHS standards as our permanent modular buildings.

Whether required to decant patients during hospital renovations, manage a short-term surge in admissions, or trial a new service, a temporary ModuleCo ward can be rapidly deployed on hospital grounds with minimal disruption to operations. At the end of the hire period, the unit can be removed efficiently, enabling healthcare providers to maintain agility in managing their estate while continuing to offer top-tier clinical environments.