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Yorkshire’s NG Bailey completes £4 million Aberdeen operating theatres

Yorkshire-based NG Bailey has completed its specialist role in the creation of two state-of-the-art operating theatres at one of Scotland’s major hospitals.

The £4 million new facilities at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, equipped with the latest “keyhole” surgery technology, were developed to generate extra capacity for the NHS to treat more patients, more quickly.

As part of its £1.9 million contract, the company’s specialist Engineering and IT services teams worked in partnership to design, install, test and commission all the theatres’ mechanical, electrical, ICT and public health services in a ten-month project.

Subject to Scottish Government approval the theatres are poised to become home to one of Scotland’s first robotic surgical facilities. Considered to be the future for surgical procedures, robotic surgery is a powerful and highly advanced system that enables precision surgery to be carried out on many more patients and speeding up recovery times.

Andrew Morley, operations director for NG Bailey in Scotland, which includes a base in Aberdeen, said: “Our continuing involvement in the transformation of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary site has underlined our expertise in maximising taxpayers’ investment and minimising patient disruption for the NHS.

“The new theatres boast the latest developments in surgical innovation – a fact underlined by the robotic ‘first’ that is planned.

“They will also play a key part in ensuring the NHS has the extra capacity it needs to ensure patients will begin treatment within 12 weeks of it being agreed by their hospital doctors.”

The handover of the new theatres comes just a few months after a flagship £110 million emergency care centre, with the capacity to treat 70,000 people a year, was opened at the same hospital by the Queen.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .