On 11 May the first patient was treated within a mobile operating theatre at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, supplied by Vanguard Healthcare, ‘to assist the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in increasing patient access and reducing the risk of cancelling operations’.
The mobile unit incorporates an anaesthetic room, two-bed recovery area, and a laminar flow theatre. It will be used for general and gynaecological procedures, allowing the Trust to organise its waiting lists around the extra capacity. The hospital expects it to allow up to an extra 50 procedures per week to be undertaken.
At an opening ceremony and staff open day, the unit was officially opened by Redditch’s Mayor, Pat Witherspoon.
