Staff celebrate new operating theatres for Northallerton as they mark the NHS milestone.
By Andrew BartonStaff marking 75 years of the NHS at a hospital in Northallerton said they had a special reason to celebrate, with news of a £35.5m investment.
The existing operating theatre at the hospital has been described by staff as a "well loved Morris Minor".A new multi-million pound surgical centre is planned to open at the Friarage in March 2025 "Northallerton is such a lovely place to work, it'd be a fantastic place for people to start their career," she added.Northallerton celebrations included an exhibition of wheelchairs and bicycles from the 1950sJames Dunbar, consultant in infection general medicine at Friarage Hospital, said the exhibits, which included old bicycles and wheelchairs, showed how "technological it is these days, compared to when we started".
The new surgical unit's increased capacity would almost double the number of planned operations carried out on the site from 5,000 to just under 10,000 a year, officials said.
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