The Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust hopes to complete work on its new £20m building which will house new surgical theatres by August - and it has now shared images showing what the new wards should look like.
The idea is that the new single-storey building at the Freeman - which has been fast-tracked this year - will house four new surgical theatres and allow medics to carry out thousands more procedures. It will enable the trust to move "thousands of day case procedures" from existing hospital buildings and free up space for more complex operations.
The trust says the new building will help it bring down long waiting lists for some surgical specialities and tackle its Covid -exacerbated backlog of elective procedures. There are currently more than 90,000 people waiting for elective treatment in Newcastle.
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