Modern methods of construction specialist MTX has been awarded the contract to deliver Royal Surrey County Hospital’s Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre, which will offer state-of-the-art facilities and include six new operating theatres.
The £41.5m two-storey development will build on Royal Surrey County Hospital’s world-class services in robotic and non-robotic surgery and enable an additional 7,000 patients to receive surgery every year. The investment in new facilities will help Royal Surrey respond to increasing demand for cancer surgery and bring down waiting lists for all elective (planned) surgical procedures.
MTX employs modern methods of construction (MMC) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) principles to deliver new facilities faster, safer, greener and more cost effectively than conventional building methods.
The fast-track processes enable ground works to take place on site while precisely engineered structural steel units are factory manufactured offsite for delivery and installation. The result is a reduction in programme duration and earlier delivery of new facilities that are purpose-designed and fully compliant to more quicky benefit patients and help to reduce waiting lists. Work has already begun on site.
MTX Pre-Construction Director Mike Butler explained: “MTX has a proven track record in supporting NHS Trusts in the delivery of vitally needed new facilities and we are delighted to be partnering the Royal Surrey to create this exciting new Cancer and Surgical Centre.
“Our expertise and resources support our Trust partners at every step of the journey from concept design through to completion and handover, to ensure each facility is fully compliant and a resource that will deliver a rapid return on investment for the Trust, and enhanced services for patients.”
Royal Surry NHS Foundation Trust Deputy Chief Executive Ross Dunworth said: “We are pleased to have awarded the contract for this major development to MTX who have extensive experience of similar construction at other NHS trusts. The new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre will be a huge step forward for Royal Surrey and transform the care we are able to provide to our patients.
“Many members of staff, patients, visitors and our charitable supporters are closely following the progress with ground works on site and updates on the units being built off site. There is a shared sense of excitement around this £40m plus development and we are very much looking forward to opening and using the new centre.”
The new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre will link to the main hospital and its existing operating theatres. It will serve as the main entrance for surgical patients attending the hospital with the exception of paediatric and day surgery patients, which will remain as a separate unit in its current location. The new facility will replace Royal Surrey’s ageing Surgical Short Stay Unit.
Royal Surrey is one of the largest cancer centres in the country. A total of 60 per cent of all surgeries performed at Royal Surrey are cancer related surgeries and the Trust supports a large catchment area across the South East of England and beyond of up to three million people - just under five per cent of the UK’s population.
