First look inside brand new Midland Metropolitan Hospital finally set to open next month
These photos are some of the first to be taken inside a huge new hospital which is finally set to open.
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Work at the Midlands Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick is nearly complete, with its doors set to open on Sunday, October 6.
Originally due to welcome patients from 2018, the hospital on Grove Lane boats 736 beds, half of which will be set in single en-suite rooms, as well as an emergency department, a dedicated children's A&E and assessment unit, separate adult and children wards, and a total of 11 operating theatres for both emergency, major planned and maternity surgery.
The hospital will also feature a midwife-led birthing unit two maternity wards - with 15 delivery rooms - antenatal services, a neonatal unit, same-day emergency care for adults and a sickle cell and thalassaemia centre.
Operated by Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, it's one of the biggest hospitals to open in the UK in 10 years.
The project has been beset by delays, with Covid and collapse of Wolverhampton-based Carillion in 2018 contributing factors, while the total cost is now expected to be close to £1 billion.
However, ahead of its opening next month, the Express & Star was invited in to see inside the new state-of-the-art hospital.
