Complex logistics for Trondheim facility

Next year will see the completion of a 10-year new build and redevelopment project to create central Norway's largest regional hospital, in Trondheim, providing medical services for over 200,000 local people, and a further 450,000 inhabitants from the wider region. The new St Olavs Hospital will be Norway's first 100 per cent single-room healthcare facility, and is set to have close links with Trondheim's Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Designed to be as 'patient-centred' as possible from the outset, it incorporates a number of innovative technologies for enhancing and automating activities ranging from pill 'picking' and distribution, to logistics and waste disposal, as HEJ, and Bjørn Bakken, project manager, logistics, at hospital development company, Helsebygg Midt-Norge, explain.