Hertfordshire-based Spire Bushey Hospital has announced a £22.7 million investment to develop a new ‘state-of-the-art medical centre’.
Planning permission was granted in January, and the investment forms the first part of the hospital’s two-phase redevelopment strategy. The first phase will consist of the new Spire Bushey Medical Centre, opening in autumn 2017, and offering a musculoskeletal diagnostic and outpatient centre, located on Centennial Park. Alongside this, an additional operating theatre, an enlarged theatre sterile services department, and 10 extra bedrooms, will be introduced at the main hospital site.
The development will see part of the current outpatient area moved to the new purpose-built site at Centennial Park, close to the now established Elstree Cancer Centre and Spire Pathology Services. This facility will provide 14 purpose-designed consulting rooms and associated treatment rooms, outpatient diagnostics, and a second MRI scanner. At Spire Bushey Hospital’s main site, the number of bedrooms will increase, while an extension to the theatre block will increase the number of theatres from five to six, and see an enlarged Theatre Sterile Service Unit created. This part of the redevelopment will be complete in summer 2018.
