The Duchess of Cornwall last month dedicated the new home of defence medical training, Defence Medical Services (Whittington) near Lichfield in Staffordshire, marking the completion of a major building project.
Investment of some £138 million saw the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and its industry partners work closely with the Surgeon General’s office and Joint Medical Command to transform the former Whittington Barracks into a unified headquarters for the Defence Medical Services (DMS), bringing together all defence medical training into one specialist site. The project’s final stage saw the relocation of the Defence College of Health Education and Training to Whittington earlier this year. The new complex provides a range of training facilities, including a learning centre, library, and lecture theatre, 736 new bed spaces for permanent staff and trainees, and a junior ranks dining and welfare facility. Around 7,000 trainees and students will now be able to develop their medical training every year at DMS’s new site, which includes a lecture theatre and training ward.
