BDP has overseen the completion of the first of 40 new NHS diagnostic centres in England using reclaimed and reused materials from the dismantled Nightingale hospitals.

The firm, which was behind many of the surge hospitals at the start of the pandemic including the first at the ExCel in London, designed a breast screening and diagnostics centre in a former department store in Poole.

Paul Johnson, architect director at BDP who led the design of the ExCel Nightingale, said the idea was to repeat the exercise with the 39 other planned diagnostic centres, which it is hoped will reduce the pressure on the stretched health service.

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