East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Modern Methods of Construction specialist, MTX Contracts, to upgrade healthcare facilities at Clacton Hospital with a new Urgent Treatment Centre.
MTX says the project is ‘the latest phase in a multi-million pound upgrade to ensure patients using the hospital receive high quality healthcare in state-of-the-art surroundings, with an improved experience in terms both of both physical access to healthcare and the clinical environment’.
Work has now started on demolishing parts of the existing Urgent Treatment Centre to make way for the two-storey extension to house the new UTC. It will incorporate nine consulting/examination rooms, a dedicated isolation room, three triage rooms, eye and plaster rooms, and a mental health consulting room. A prefabricated rooftop room will enclose mechanical equipment serving the building, and ground and first floor walkways will link the new UTC into existing buildings to be refurbished.
Naomi Palmer, the Trust’s Project manager, said: “We are delighted that Clacton Hospital is benefiting from such a significant investment. The work that has taken place so far has brought essential diagnostic services closer to home, while vastly improving the environment in which our patients receive care. This major project’s next phase will see a new, easy-to-access UTC created, along with extra clinical spaces. The work has been planned carefully so patients can continue to access these services throughout construction without the need to travel further afield.”
MTX MD, David Hartley, said: “We have a long-standing relationship with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, and are delighted to have been chosen to deliver this high quality upgrade at Clacton Hospital faster, greener, more safely, and more cost- effectively, using innovative and advanced modern methods of construction.”
