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£37.5m Birmingham Children's Hospital building gets green light

This picture offers the first glimpse of a stunning new £37.5 million building at Birmingham Children's Hospital.

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Planners have given the green light to start work on the Whittall Street building, which will be home to the UK's first pioneering Rare Diseases Centre for children - as well as a cancer centre and three new operating theatres.

Hospital bosses said the new cancer centre will provide world-class facilities for children and young people.

The eye-catching four-storey building – due for completion in late 2017 - will improve care for young people with cancer and rare diseases.

It has been funded by a £4 million Children's Cancer Centre Appeal.

Money donated will be used to increase space around each bed, along with providing a bright outpatient area.

The internal colour scheme of the new building will take inspiration from nature and the Birmingham canals, with colours arranged to resemble cascading water as an eye-catching feature of the main entrance.

David Melbourne, Birmingham Children's Hospital's interim chief executive, said: "This is the single biggest investment we have made in our Steelhouse Lane site.

"Finally, the world-class care that we know we provide to our children and young people will be given from world-class facilities, which is going to make an enormous difference.

"Our oncology inpatients and outpatients will be treated in the same centre for the first time, benefitting from hugely improved facilities, with more space.

"Previously children and young people with rare diseases were seen at different times, by different health care professionals, in different parts of the hospital.

"We're proud to be leading the way nationally with our exciting new centre, which will mean all appointments take place on the same day, with the same group of experts, all co-ordinated in one dedicated space.

"The difference this block will make to those groups of patients, plus the staff who care for them is going to be massive."

The block will be built on the site of the former hospital car park, which was demolished in 2015.

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