£38 million A&E opens at Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital
New Cross Hospital's £38 million new A&E department officially opened its doors this morning.
The state-of-the-art department began accepting patients at 4am.
Encompassing all the urgent care facilities under one roof, the new A&E department is three times the size of New Cross's old A&E department and will be one of the biggest in the region.
The A&E department itself boasts 30 treatment rooms for minor injuries, 18 for major injuries and a resuscitation area.
This is just for adults, with a separate paediatric area available in the A&E for children.
The building also houses dedicated radiology and X-ray facilities and has decreased the distance between the resuscitation area and the intensive care unit.
David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust which runs New Cross Hospital, said: "It's absolutely great. We have waited a long time to get a new A&E department."
