Public Board papers 31.03.22

Replacement of Energy Centre and Energy Efficiency The construction works relating to the new battery storage facility are in progress with the floor and frame of the facility in progress. Works on the new energy centre and chimney will continue into Q2 2022. Provision of New Outpatient Pharmacy Robot The Trust is currently developing plans for the provision of a new Outpatient Pharmacy. The new facility will include a new dedicated outpatient automated dispensing robot which will speed up the dispensing of medicines from the deposit of prescriptions. The facility will be located in the old MRI facility thus closer to the main patient pathway and will improve the patient experience with better patient waiting and staff facilities. Preparation works will commence in March with the facility opening later in 2022.

Provision of an Additional MRI Scanner in Existing Facility Works will commence soon on the installation of a fourth Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine within our existing MRI facility on the main hospital campus. When the original facility was constructed one room was left as a shell for future expansion. The 1.5T scanner was ordered in December 2021 and the original design and construction team have been appointed to continue the delivery of the scheme and works will commence in March 2022 with the facility opening late 2022 to provide valuable additional capacity.

More information about our new developments can be found at: http://christie.nhs.uk/about-us/our-future/our-developments/

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