Sloping site proves bonus, not barrier.

Speed of construction, with significantly less disruption to on-site activity, and continuity of a wide range of orthopaedic surgery, coupled with excellent prior experience of the modular build specialist's expertise at the site, led the project team for a suite of four new orthopaedic operating theatres at the Leicester General Hospital to again select Stockport-based MTX Contracts for the job. As HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie reports, last November's completion of the pound 6.5 million theatre complex means the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust will no longer, in the face of growing demand, need to send some 600 patients annually to private hospitals in the area for their operation.