Hospital expansion plan includes dental surgery

The two-storey extension will include two new operating theatres and a dental surgery

A Surrey hospital has been granted planning permission for a two-storey extension which will include two new operating theatres and a dental surgery.

The development will fill space between two wings at East Surrey Hospital and help staff better cope with increasing demand.

The dental treatment area would occupy the ground floor with the operating theatres above.

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council planners said the new building was “required to facilitate other urgent works within the hospital to meet growing patient demands”.

Work at the hospital, which is run by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, has already begun.

A council planning meeting was told the development will be connected by fully enclosed bridges to neighbouring operating building.

The ground floor will house a dental treatment area, while the first floor will accommodate two operating theatres.