No drama in fast-track theatre conversion.

MTX Contracts, a specialist contractor with a growing healthcare portfolio, has helped the Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Berkshire meet growing demand for orthopaedic surgery with the ultra-fast conversion of a former X-ray department to a new ultra-clean theatre. Pulling up multi-layer 1930s-laid parquet flooring, erecting extensive steelwork to provide structural and services support, and knocking through sizeable walls while minimising disruption to adjacent services, were among the challenges successfully met. Jonathan Baillie reports.