East Midlands Planned Care Centre in Leicester treating first patients.

Available for over a year

The new East Midlands Planned Care Centre in Leicester has begun treating its first patients. Based at Leicester General Hospital, medics at the centre will carry out day procedures and non complex operations to help tackle the NHS backlog which has increased since the pandemic. Once it's fully operational late next year it could be treating more than 100 thousand patients a year. It comes as new data shows there has been a drop in the number of people waiting more than a year for treatment at Leicester's hospitals. Reporter Tim Parker details the latest statistics in Leicestershire, and Chief Executive of Leicesters' Hospitals, Richard Mitchell explains to Owynn Palmer Atkin what the new facility means for patient care.