Work to build a new £7 million endoscopy suite at Harrogate District Hospital is now underway and patients, visitors and staff are being asked to bear in mind that this will lead to the temporary closure of a main corridor for a few months to allow construction to take place.
The works will provide a total of five procedure rooms, separate changing facilities and dedicated admissions and discharge rooms where the clinical teams can discuss the procedure with patients in private. The department has been designed to provide capacity to meet the anticipated future needs of the local population.
The new unit is being built as a modular construction above the maxillofacial department. It will be connected into the existing hospital at first floor level in the region of the glass tunnel located between ITU/HDU and the Pre Assessment Unit. Locating the unit in this area will provide access to main theatres as well at the outpatients department, sterile services and the front entrance of the hospital.
Lorraine Dyson, endoscopy suite manager, said: “While the corridor is closed a number of important construction activities will take place, including the installation of structural steelwork, the delivery and installation of the modular buildings that form the new endoscopy suite, the installation of new mechanical and electrical services to feed the new department and the rebuilding of the corridor to form the new entrance to the endoscopy suite.”
