£1.85MILLION Investment In Surgery Centre Of Excellence At Inverclyde Royal Hospital

15 January, 2021 | Local

WORK has started on creating a centre of excellence for elective orthopaedic surgery at Inverclyde Royal Hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) has appointed a design team for the £1.5million theatre investment, with a further £350,000 being invested to upgrade two wards to support the redesigned trauma and orthopaedic service.

This redesign will allow an increase in planned operations such as knee replacements.

It is hoped that some 360 additional operations will be carried out each year as a result of the investment.

Melanie McColgan, director of the Clyde Sector at NHSGGC, said: “This investment will allow us to increase the number of planned operations at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, supporting our aspirations to have IRH established as an elective centre of excellence for orthopaedic surgery.

“This will bring huge benefits for patients who may require life-changing procedures such as hip or knee replacements. This investment, once again, shows our commitment to IRH as both an emergency hospital and a centre of excellent community healthcare services.

In the last decade, we have invested £46million on improvements across Inverclyde Royal Hospital.”

Pre-construction work has now commenced and site work will be programmed to start as soon as it is practical and safe to do so given current covid restrictions.

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