Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT) has several multi-million-pound developments taking place across its sites.
These projects provide a great opportunity to make a real difference in services delivered for patients and communities.
Construction of the new £19m NHS surgical day case unit at St Luke’s Hospital is progressing well and is set to open later this year. When finished, the day case unit will increase operations delivered in Bradford by over 5,000 a year, reducing the time patients wait for surgery, and help tackle local health inequalities.
It will bring together the skills and expertise of staff under one roof: reducing waiting times for some of the most common procedures.
Work on the development of a new Endoscopy Unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI) is moving into a new phase with full planning permission being granted for this important scheme. Building the £25m Endoscopy Unit is a two-year project, due for completion in late 2025, which will see the introduction of an eight-roomed unit connected to the main hospital building.
The new unit has been designed specifically to meet the needs of patients, providing a larger capacity and a much-improved environment to provide the best possible care and service to our patients.
Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR), which is based at Bradford Royal Infirmary and is at the forefront of world-class, people-powered medical research, is adding a smart, new and eye-catching entrance to its building.
This will help people coming to BIHR to take part in research to find their way around and have a better experience of supporting ground-breaking research in Bradford.
As part of its Outstanding Maternity Services programme, the Trust is also improving its Women and Newborn building to improve staff and patients’ experience. The work includes relocation and refurbishment of the maternity assessment centre, the antenatal clinic and the antenatal day unit, plus refurbishment of the public and staff toilets and relocation of the gynaecology clinic.
Work has begun on a reflection garden at Bradford Royal Infirmary. The green space, situated on the Smith Lane side of the hospital, will be a place where colleagues, patients and visitors can come and sit in quiet contemplation if they need a break away from the office or wards.
It was made possible thanks to a £44,840 grant from NHS Charities Together which Bradford Hospitals Charity secured.
“We’re investing in our estate to make Bradford Teaching Hospitals fit for the future with new advancements in patient care and an overall better experience for our patients and colleagues,” said Saj Azeb, Chief Operating Officer at BTHFT. “We’ve got some significant new developments under way that will change the way we deliver care, such as the surgical day case unit at St Luke’s Hospital, allowing us to treat more patients and reduce waiting lists. It’s an exciting time for BTHFT and great news for our local NHS.”
These developments follow an already ambitious plan last year which saw new, modern maternity theatres at Bradford Royal Infirmary and investment into a new da Vinci robot dedicated to cancer surgery as well as new CT and MRI scanners. A new state-of-the-art £9m Community Diagnostic Centre in Eccleshill for patients across the Bradford district was also opened.
