New operating theatres are being built at Royal Bolton Hospital in a multi-million-pound investment to help hundreds of patients waiting for surgery. Although work has started on the huge new extension containing state-of-the-art theatres, planning permission was formally granted for the development on Wednesday.
The two new theatres are being built on what was a staff car park near the Princess Anne maternity unit. They will be used for operations while other theatres at the hospital are refurbished and later be used to provide extra capacity.
Hospital bosses believe the theatres, in a new 1,250 square metre building, will be up and running by April, 2023. A planning statement published by Bolton Council gave an indication of the scale of the surgical backlog at the hospital.
