A hospital in Swansea is planning to build more operating theatres - to help cut the backlog of people waiting for operations. Singleton Hospital in Sketty currently has six operating theatres but chiefs are now proposing to build three new ones, bringing the total number of theatres at the hospital to nine.
The planned new operating theatres are "modular" in design so they can be built quickly and more affordably than traditional builds, staff say. Swansea Bay University Health Board has been asked to approve the plans at its upcoming meeting on Thursday, May 26. The news comes after it was revealed in the last week that more than 700,000 people in Wales were waiting for planned treatment on the NHS - and you can read more about that here.
If approved, the theatres will be the latest in a number of such facilities being introduced across the region. Neath Port Talbot Hospital is set to have three new theatres to make the hospital a "centre of excellence" for orthopaedic care and Swansea's Day Surgery Unit, located opposite the main Singleton Hospital building, is also having an additional operating theatre built. For more stories about healthcare in Wales, go here. And you can get the latest top stories from Swansea delivered directly to your inbox with our newsletter.
