 The surgical unit will have 28 additional patient beds |
Kettering Borough Council has given the go-ahead for the local NHS Trust to build a new short-stay surgical unit and an education centre. It is hoped the �14.5m surgery department, called the ACDU or Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Unit, will cut waiting times.
A spokesman for the trust said the unit will enable 85% of waiting list surgery to be done within two days of referral.
The ACDU at Kettering General Hospital is to be operational by April 2006.
Geraint Martin, the hospital's chief executive, said: "People will be able to book their operation at a time that best suits them and be able to have one-stop pre-operative assessment.
"Within 48 hours they will have had their surgery and be able to return home."
A scheme to build an education centre, which will cost �2.7m, has also been approved.
The centre will include a library, IT suite, videoconferencing for doctor training, a dental training lab and another lab with a mock ward where doctors and nurses can brush up on their skills.
It will be paid for by the Leicester Warwick Medical School, with �200,000 from the Trustees of the Prince William Postgraduate Education Centre.
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