Hospital's new 'emergency village' nears completion

The development is due to be handed over to the trust on 30 September

Work to build a new "emergency village" at a hospital in Nottinghamshire is nearing completion, a NHS trust has said.

Construction of the new facility at Bassetlaw Hospital in Worksop began in July 2023.

Once complete, it will be home to an emergency department, paediatric services and an adult assessment ward.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (DBTH) said the development was due to be handed over from the construction company on 30 September.

The new facility will bring back overnight children's care to Bassetlaw Hospital

The trust said emergency and paediatric services would begin moving into the "state-of-the-art facilities" after the handover "through a phased process".

The transition is expected to be completed later in the year, it added.

Zoe Powell-Wiffen, deputy divisional nurse for urgent and emergency care, said staff were "really excited" at the prospect of moving to the new facility.

"We call it the emergency village very intentionally, because it contains a number of our emergency care services," she said.

"[It] is about co-locating services, so making sure that we've got all of our emergency assessment facilities in one place, because that allows us to really streamline our processes.

"It makes one place that patients need to go to for emergency care at Bassetlaw, which makes it easier for patients to navigate as well."