A brand new maternity theatre has opened at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead - and staff said the new state-of-the-art facilities were the biggest improvement in the department since the 1990s.
The new theatre - designed in a modular fashion by ModuleCo and dropped into place on site via crane - will increase the hospital's capacity to carry out Caesarean sections and also make maternity safer for mothers and babies. The wholly-owned subsidiary company QE Facilities has played a key role in getting the new building in place.
The hospital trust's medical director Andy Beeby - who is also a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist - praised the new "fantastic" new theatre which he said would make the maternity team more efficient and flexible.
