The Government has given formal approval for a £105 million clinical rehabilitation centre in the countryside near Loughborough.
The National Rehabilitation Centre is being built at Stanford on Soar alongside an existing Ministry of Defence rehabilitation centre, which opened in 2018. The new NHS facility will be operated by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
It is hoped it will be treating patients from early 2025, and forms part of the Government’s New Hospital Programme – which saw previous PM Boris Johnson controversially promise 40 new hospitals by 2030.
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Contracts for the site have been exchanged between the hospitals trust and its construction partner Integrated Health Projects, a joint venture between VINCI Construction 海角视频 and Sir Robert McAlpine.
The new 70-bed centre will include research, training and education facilities running alongside day-to-day clinical care delivered by hospital staff.
It will act as a regional, national and international facility, and be used to pioneer new approaches to rehabilitation in partnership with the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University.
It is hoped it will provide a unique opportunity to transform rehabilitation within the NHS, helping more patients regain their quality of life following serious injury or illness and potentially saving millions of lost working hours.
Now that it has received approval from the Treasury work will start constructing it 400 metres from the current Defence facility – called DMRC Stanford Hall.
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Miriam Duffy, NRC Programme Director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “The National Rehabilitation Centre will transform how we provide clinical rehabilitation in this country.
“This long overdue centre will push the boundaries of rehabilitation for the next generation and bring real impact in terms of helping people to realise their full potential following injury or illness.”
Stanford Hall is owned by Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, who said: “Since my father’s death, our family has fully supported what he set out to achieve in the clinical rehabilitation arena, so we are delighted that the full extent of the opportunity he initiated is being fulfilled with construction of the National Rehabilitation Centre now under way.
“The existence of both Defence and National rehabilitation centres on the same site was always what he wanted to see and I have no doubt that the lasting impact will be the true legacy of what he set in motion.”