Morgan Sindall Construction has landed a £60m contract to upgrade six hospitals in Essex.
The contractor was appointed by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to carry out the work under the ProCure23 framework.
The improvement programme will see a new community diagnostic centre built in Pitsea, part of Basildon, on the site of a former leisure centre.
The building will be one of about 30 of such facilities to be constructed across the country as part of an effort to move diagnostics out of acute hospitals and into community centres.
It will have an MRI and CT scanning suite, X-ray machines, a pharmacy, as well as a library and sporting facilities.
Morgan Sindall will also deliver a new elective surgery hub at Southend University Hospital, designed to boost existing capacity, with the installation of two additional theatres.
Peter Whitmore, eastern managing director for Morgan Sindall Construction, said the projects would bring a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits to communities in Essex by “helping to speed up diagnosis within local settings and supercharging Southend’s surgical capabilities”.
He added: “We look forward to strengthening our relationship with the trust – which has been built up [from] working on several successful projects together – and creating new medical environments that are going to make a real difference to people’s lives.”
Earlier this year, the firm was also chosen by the trust to remove reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford and Thurrock Community Hospital, as part of a series of improvements.
That work, which was procured through the NHS Shared Business Services framework, will see 4,000 square metres of hospital space upgraded.
