Premier Modular Install UK’s First Modular Barn Surgical Theatre

Premier Modular is constructing the first modular barn surgical theatre in the United Kingdom.
As the newest addition to Maidstone Hospital in Kent, the transformational orthopaedic section will be named as the Kent and Medway Orthopaedic Centre. The Centre will provide care for people from across the area and expand the capacity of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for scheduled surgical procedures.
Due to the Trust's need for an effective building solution with minimal disruption on a busy hospital site and as they needed use of the facility as soon as possible, Premier Modular was awarded the £19.8 million contract.
The new Centre is a component of a larger national initiative to establish more than 50 new surgical hubs throughout England, performing over two million additional surgeries to shorten waiting lists over the following three years.
Current capacity problems can be solved by barn theatres, which are customised operating room in an open-plan surgical environment. Barn operating rooms, although currently few in number in the UK, have received widespread international acclaim for their capacity to increase the effectiveness of medical treatments.