BMI The Blackheath Hospital has officially opened a new operating theatre department as part of phase one of a £3.8 million investment project that will modernise the hospital’s theatre and upgrade its critical care provision.
Work began on the new theatre development back in September 2013 to deliver a brand new theatre department with a six bed recovery unit, nursing station and upgrades to the hospital’s three theatres.
The development has also improved the theatre department’s staff areas, including offices, changing rooms, corridors and a rest room. Behind the scenes the infrastructure and support for the air handling units, which filters air coming into the operating theatres, and the medical gas infrastructure has also been upgraded. Two of the hospital’s specialist orthopaedic theatres, which have air supplied through an ultra-clean ventilation (UCV) system, have also been improved to enhance the care of patients undergoing joint replacement surgery.
Phase two of the project, which will upgrade the hospital’s high dependency unit (HDU) to a level 3 Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU) and deliver a new interventional radiology department, will now begin in the Autumn of 2014.
