Milton Keynes University Hospital has opened a brand-new mobile theatre in March as part of plans to increase the number of patients the hospital is able to see and treat.
The new mobile facility, supplied by Vanguard Healthcare Solutions, will house both a day case theatre and a dedicated short-stay recovery ward, ensuring patients can be seen and treated in the same location on the same day.
While not connected to the hospital, the facility is positioned close to the Trust’s other surgical facilities, ensuring patient care, experience and flow is optimised.
The Vanguard facility will enable the Trust to perform a range of day-case general surgery operations as well as some dental, urology and gynaecology procedures.
The introduction of this facility is another way the hospital is increasing its elective (planned) activity.
The new mobile facility will house both a day case theatre and a dedicated short-stay recovery ward
This follows other successful initiatives launched last year such as the Super Paediatric Surgery Days, which provided dedicated days for paediatric surgery.
Also, the introduction of High Volume Low Complexity lists, where more patients can be treated over a shorter space of time.
Max Lawson, National Account Manager at Vanguard Healthcare Solutions, said: “It’s great to be helping the Trust with such ambitious and important plans, shortening waiting times and providing the local community with high-quality care across a range of specialities.”
Emma Livesley, Chief Operations Officer at Milton Keynes University Hospital, said: “We recognise patients are waiting longer than we would like and this is one of several ways in which we are reducing those waiting times, improving both the care and experience that our patients receive.”
It comes as Vanguard Healthcare Solutions recently launched the Laminar Flow Operating Theatre, a larger 49 sqm mobile operating theatre.
