Dental clinic for special needs patients opens at Cheshunt Community Hospital Monday, 7th March 2022

We were proud to provide full multi-disciplinary services to help deliver a new state-of-the-art dental suite for people with special needs at Cheshunt Community Hospital.

A former minor surgery wing was refurbished and purpose-designed to create the modern dental suite to treat residents who have special needs that range from physical and learning disabilities to medical conditions.

The new clinic comprises three modern surgery areas with modern equipment to help improve and expand healthcare provision in Hertfordshire.

The dental suite benefits from additional accessibility with wheelchair and step free access, as well as larger dental chairs designed to allow easier access for those with special needs.

A new Sensory Room that helps patients to relax features a film wall with HD projection, bubble tubes, and tranquil lighting and sound systems.

Hertfordshire Special Care Dental Service is an award-winning community dental service which is part of Hertfordshire Community Trust (HCT). Cheshunt Community Hospital, based in King Arthur Court, is managed by HCT.

Our Billericay office was appointed to provide multi-disciplinary services for the project, including architecture, project management, quantity surveying, mechanical and electrical consultancy.

Partner Chris Mabbutt said: “We were pleased to project manage this important community development which was delivered brilliantly by everyone despite the unique challenges of working in a busy healthcare environment during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We worked closely with Hertfordshire Special Care Dental Service to design and deliver the new state-of-the-art dental suite which will provide modern and specialist dental care to patients with special needs across Hertfordshire for generations to come.”

The dental clinic also boasts improved ventilation systems with large-scale air handling units installed to provide staff, patients and visitors with high standards of indoor air quality.

Una Monaghan, Clinical Director of Special Care Dental Service at Hertfordshire Community Trust, said: “We are so pleased with our wonderful new clinic and have had a lot of very positive comments from our patients.

“The Sensory Room is proving extremely popular with many adults and children who find it helps them to cope better with their dental treatment.

“The clinics were designed with support from an expert with experience from the learning disability community and we genuinely believe this wonderful new health care facility is ideally placed to enable us to continue to deliver outstanding dental treatment.”

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