Greater Manchester hospital expansion planned in bid to reduce long waiting lists
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPlans to build a brand new theatre at Wrightington Hospital have been tabled in the hope they reduce waiting lists. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) are hoping a new £6.1m theatre will address long waits for surgery and reinforce the hospital’s status as a regional orthopaedic hub.
The expansion at Wrightington would also reduce pressure on theatre and bed capacity at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary site at Wigan, the trust claims.
The ambition is for around 1,200 high-volume, low complexity orthopaedic procedures per year to be carried out within the new facility. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link Orthopaedics is the largest volume elective specialty in Greater Manchester, so this additional capacity would aid the reduction of NHS waiting lists across the region, according to WWL.
Funding of the £6.1m build is being provided by the NHS England Targeted Investment Funds (TIF) programme, which is a national initiative targeted towards increasing NHS elective and diagnostic capacity in response to the rising elective backlogs resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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