William Harvey Hospital has received an additional state-ofthe- art mobile operating theatre from Vanguard Healthcare to boost capacity and help reduce patient waiting times.
The hospital, part of the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, has been using one of Vanguard’s units – widely dubbed as ‘pop-up hospitals’ – since 2011, to enable the surgical team to conduct an increased number of gynaecological procedures. The Hospital provides a range of emergency and elective services in addition to comprehensive maternity, trauma, orthopaedic, paediatric and neonatal intensive care services. It is continuing to see high demands for surgery so requested that Vanguard deploy an additional temporary surgical unit to continue reducing waiting times. The additional theatre will add more capacity and allow the hospital’s surgeons to conduct maxillofacial and minor orthopaedic surgery.
