Work on a multi-million pound new department has started at the QMC. Construction work is currently taking place on the grounds of the Queen's Medical Centre to create a new Children's Emergency Department, next door to the Adult Emergency Department.
The £2.6m investment will create two new paediatric resuscitation cubicles, bigger waiting areas and a new mental health space. Fresh pictures have shown the foundations have now been laid for the transformation project.
In an update posted to Twitter, Nottingham University Hospitals' Medicine Division said: "Never standing still! Foundations and steels take shape for our new Children's Emergency Department. Thirteen new cubicles, two Paeds Resus bays, bespoke mental health and teen provision."
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The department was previously temporarily moved to the Lyn Jarret Unit at the Queen's Medical Centre while building work began. The improvements will be funded by capital money the hospital trust has access to every year.
When the plan was announced in July 2021, Colin Gilhooley, consultant in paediatric emergency medicine, said: “We are delighted to announce that we will be investing £2.6M to expand our Children's and Young People Emergency Department at the QMC.
"This new expansion will create two new paediatric resuscitation cubicles, increase our clinical space by 50 percent increase, create a bigger waiting area, a new mental health space and a new entrance.
