A brand new £24m building at the Freeman Hospital opens this week and could see more than 7,000 patients through the doors each year as part of a plan to slash NHS backlogs.
The new building in the grounds of the hospital features four new surgical theatres, and spaces for patients to be admitted, recover and be discharged. The self-contained day-treatment centre should be insulated from wider pressures on the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust - such as a potentially difficult winter.
The new centre has been completed just 12 months after being approved by the hospital trust's board - and the NHS team are now eager to begin work. The first patients are due on Friday September 30.
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