The modular building, which took just 16 months to complete, includes new inpatient medical wards, a dedicated one-stop breast care unit, and a diagnostics centre delivering increased capability, with:
- 74 inpatient beds – two storeys offering a combination of single rooms and four-bed bays.
- A dedicated breast care diagnostic and outpatient unit – providing a ‘one stop’ service in a much-improved modern environment.
- A new imaging centre – ‘providing increased capacity and capability with the latest diagnostic imaging equipment (comprising three CT scanners, two MRI scanners, and two gamma cameras), all within comfortable, purpose-built accommodation’.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) said: “The inpatient wards will provide much-needed extra capacity to help improve patient flow through, and allow the hospital to better cope with busy seasonal pressures, while the state-of-the-art diagnostics unit will increase the number of appointments available, and help patients get earlier diagnoses and quicker access to treatment.”
Lance McCarthy, the Trust’s CEO, said: “This represents a significant investment in the services and facilities we can provide for our local communities. The additional beds – including far more single rooms, will help us manage the increases in urgent care demand we have been experiencing in recent years, and reduce both waiting times for planned care, and the disruption caused by the ongoing remedial work to keep areas affected by RAAC safe.”