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'World class' £48m centre for heart patients wins award
A NEW £48m centre for heart patients in East Yorkshire has won an award.
The Centre for Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham, won best health care building at the Local Authority Building Control Awards, which recognise building quality and standards through the design and building process.
The centre opened to patients in February and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday described it as "the latest world class building" it had opened. It was officially opened by Home Secretary Alan Johnson on July 17.
Trust chief executive Stephen Greep said it allowed more patients to be seen more quickly.
He said: "This 48m investment will enable us to treat more patients faster than ever before.
"The building is a state-of-the-art extension of our existing facilities at Castle Hill Hospital and is equipped with the latest technology available to clinicians. The centre represents our ongoing commitment to providing high quality services for our patients and is a key part of our long-term strategy to re-develop patient environments at both Castle Hill and Hull Royal Infirmary."
The centre is a key part of a 250m programme of capital investment, the biggest healthcare development spending programme in the region in 50 years.
In 2008 the trust opened a 12m Medical Research and Day Surgery Unit and a 67m Oncology and Haematology Centre.
It also purchased the former Nuffield Hospital on its Castle Hill site for 10m last July and has transferred its breast surgery patients to that building.
Further development will continue at Hull Royal Infirmary site where work on a new renal dialysis unit is now underway.
Within the Centre for Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, new hi-tech operating theatres, the catheter lab and in-patient facilities have greatly improved the quality of care patients receive.
As well as providing considerable extra capacity the new facility has enabled the trust to streamline and speed up initial assessment and diagnosis by uniting consulting rooms and diagnostic facilities, such as ECGs, echocardiograms and stress tests, within the same department.
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