Modern methods of construction specialist, MTX, has been awarded the contract to deliver Royal Surrey County Hospital’s Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre.

The £41.5m two-storey development will build on Royal Surrey County Hospital’s world-class services in robotic and non-robotic surgery and enable an additional 7,000 patients to receive surgery every year.

The investment in new facilities will also help Royal Surrey respond to increasing demand for cancer surgery and bring down waiting lists for all elective surgical procedures.

MTX employs modern methods of construction (MMC) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) principles to deliver new facilities faster, safer, greener, and more cost effectively than conventional building methods.

The fast-track processes enable groundworks to take place on site while precisely-engineered structural steel units are factory manufactured offsite for delivery and installation.

The result is a reduction in programme duration and earlier delivery of new facilities that are purpose designed and fully compliant to more quicky benefit patients and help to reduce waiting lists.

Work has already begun on site.

MTX pre-construction director, Mike Butler, explains: “MTX has a proven track record in supporting NHS trusts in the delivery of vitally-needed new facilities and we are delighted to be partnering the Royal Surrey to create this exciting new Cancer and Surgical Centre.

“Our expertise and resources support our trust partners at every step of the journey, from concept design through to completion and handover, to ensure each facility is fully compliant and a resource that will deliver a rapid return on investment for the trust and enhanced services for patients.”

Royal Surry NHS Foundation Trust deputy chief executive, Ross Dunworth, adds: “We are pleased to have awarded the contract for this major development to MTX which has extensive experience of similar construction at other NHS trusts.

“The new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre will be a huge step forward for Royal Surrey and transform the care we are able to provide to our patients.”

The new facility will link to the main hospital and its existing operating theatres and will serve as the main entrance for surgical patients attending the hospital, with the exception of paediatric and day surgery patients which will remain as a separate unit in its current location.

Once completed it will replace Royal Surrey’s ageing Surgical Short Stay Unit.