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Royal Marsden Hospital's new £10m critical care centre rises from the ashes
Peter Dominiczak04.08.09
Work has started on a £10 million hospital critical care ward a year after a fire ripped through the building. The Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea has started building an improved critical care department after the fire damaged its roof in January last year.
As the fire took hold in the unit, which had only opened in 2000, seriously ill patients had to be evacuated to escape falling debris.
The new building will house 19 beds, with the possibility of adding four more later.
Two new rooms for teenage cancer patients and their families will also be created.
It will be the largest and most advanced unit of its kind in Europe.
Royal Marsden chief executive Cally Palmer said: "The new critical care unit will make a real difference to patients, providing spacious and high quality facilities, with extra capacity, so that we can provide the very best care."
