The contract to deliver Royal Surrey County Hospital’s new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre in Guildford – which will offer ‘state-of-the-art’ facilities, and include six new operating theatres, has been awarded to Modern Methods of Construction specialist, MTX.
MTX says the £41.5 m 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 new facilities, at one of England’s largest cancer centres, will help the hospital respond to increasing demand for cancer surgery, and bring down waiting lists for elective surgery. procedures.
MTX explains that the ‘fast-track’ Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) principles it employs enable ground works to take place on site while precisely engineered structural steel units are factory manufactured off site for delivery and installation. The result is shorter programme and earlier delivery of new, purpose-built, facilities. Work at the Guildford hospital has already begun.
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Deputy CEO, Ross Dunworth, said: “We are pleased to have awarded the contract for this major development to MTX, which has extensive experience of similar construction at other NHS Trusts.
“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 new development.”
The new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre will link to the main hospital and its existing operating theatres, replacing Royal Surrey’s ‘ageing’ Surgical Short Stay Unit. It will serve as the main entrance for surgical patients attending the hospital.
