HammondCare has revealed plans to build a new centre of excellence for the complex care of older people, to be built on the grounds of the current Greenwich Hospital – and Hammond Innovations will be right in the heart of it.
HammondCare Greenwich will be an integrated health campus offering world-class services including palliative, dementia, restorative and mental health care, along with aged care and seniors living accommodation, all in the one place.
Our new home, due to be ready in 2029, will be in the historic Pallister House, the only building on the site that won’t be demolished to make way for the redevelopment.
Instead, this original, heritage-listed family home will be refurbished into the headquarters of our exciting new venture, encapsulating in its 133-year-old walls a nod to our pioneering history and our future of innovation.
This original, heritage-listed family home will be refurbished into the headquarters of our exciting new venture...
Pallister House will become the home of a collective of researchers, innovators and care practitioners – from HammondCare and beyond – turning bright ideas into practical solutions that transform dementia, palliative and complex care.
The building will host The IDEA Hub: a physical and virtual engine room to harness focused research, creative design, groundbreaking technology and agile implementation into a place where Insight, Design, Evidence and Action meet.
We’ll conceive, source and assess the best ideas for the most pressing challenges.
Working hand-in-hand with the people we care for, team members, families, researchers and partners, we’ll invent and co-design solutions that work in the real world.
We’ll validate and evaluate our designs, using data analytics to turn complexity into actionable insight, and test them safely in simulated hospital, residential and home settings.
Finally, we’ll put evidence into action, scaling proven solutions and sharing our learnings sector-wide.
“What excites me most is that this will be a place where staff, residents, patients and families co-create practical solutions together,’ said Executive General Manager, Dr Anna Barker.
‘Hammond Innovations will bring our insights, creativity and lived experience to the centre of everything we build.’
Our new General Manager for Innovations, Michael Bromley, landed in the role on the day of the Greenwich redevelopment launch last week. He comes to us with over 20 years of experience leading digital and technology-focused companies across various industries, and is passionate about using emerging technologies to make change for good.
‘It's exciting to see Hammond Innovation's future take shape at Greenwich,’ Michael said.
‘There's real potential to create a living lab for new ideas that impact the lives of older people for the better. As someone who's been brought in to help establish the foundations for Innovation delivery in the new Hammond Innovations group, I'm looking forward to building the foundations that make that possible.’
Hammond Innovations is looking forward to being part of this groundbreaking new campus – we can’t wait to make our home there. But in the meantime, we’ll be busy researching and developing answers to the challenges of complex care.
Get in touch and we’ll talk!