A new £5.2million purpose-built day surgery unit at Singleton Hospital is helping to speed up treatment times for patients in Swansea and bring down long waiting times Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons said today (March 9th).
The new unit, supplied by ModuleCo, which was officially opened today, is open 12 hours a day, five days a week and provides an additional 80 to 100 operations each week.
Built with off-site construction methods, the facility incorporates two operating theatres, four 6-bed recovery units, four assessment rooms, ancillary and staff facilities.
Dr Gibbons said: "Since the day surgery unit opened at Singleton last October patients have seen a huge difference in the way they are treated. The Welsh Assembly Government has given a commitment to reduce waiting times across Wales and by providing £1.8m towards this unit patients in Swansea are seeing this happen.
"One of this year's targets for the NHS is to increase the number of procedures carried out in a day theatre setting so that patients don't have to spend any longer than is necessary in hospital. With this facility patients coming in for cataract surgery spend around two hours at the unit from admission to discharge. This is a huge improvement.
"The unit has also had an impact on general elective waiting times. With patients being treated in the new day unit, main theatre space has been freed up increasing the capacity of the Trust to carry out operations.
"Thanks to the hard work of NHS staff in Swansea there have been some dramatic falls in long waiting times over the last year. With the opening of the new day surgery unit at Singleton I am sure unit these falls will continue."
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