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Single rooms, tall cranes: new hospital facts and figures

Theatre numbers

There are 30 theatres: 23 inpatient theatres and 7 day case theatres. Theatres are identified as:

• emergency
• ambulatory
• elective

Plus

• There are separate dedicated visitor and patient lifts
• 44% of inpatient beds are single rooms.  The rest are four-bed, single-sex rooms
• All inpatient bedrooms have en suite bathrooms
• All wards have clinical handwash basins at their entrances to support hand hygiene

Did you know?

• More than 10,000 tons of steel was used to build the new hospital - that is equivalent to the weight of 83 blue whales and, if you consider the heart of a blue whale to be the same size as a hatchback car, that's a lot of steel
• Approximately 225,000 cubic metres of ground was excavated - that's enough to fill 90 Olympic-sized swimming pools
• About 55,000 metres of concrete foundation piles were bored into the ground - which is 35 miles, or roughly the distance from Birmingham to Worcester