Internal work on the National Rehabilitation Centre continues at pace
Underfloor heating and bedheads in bedrooms are the latest facilities being installed at the UK’s first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre, which will begin receiving patients later this year.
The 70-bed purpose-built rehabilitation centre near Loughborough, which will be staffed and run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, aims to transform rehabilitation in the UK.
Our latest photos reveal the bespoke wooden bedheads being installed in patient and visitor bedrooms, and underfloor heating being installed throughout the ground floor including the main gym.
Plastering throughout the building has also been completed and some bedrooms have even been painted with primer.
Meanwhile, on the outside of the building the black cladding is complete, and framework installed to hold the final rainscreen cladding which will give the NRC its finished appearance.
The £105million NRC programme will create a specialist facility combines NHS care with research and innovation from our two academic partners – the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University – and is part of the New Hospital Programme.
The Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, already home to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre which opened in 2018, was carefully selected as the site for the NRC to bring together these two centres of excellence and drive rehabilitation standards both nationally and internationally.
The construction is being carried out by IHP, a joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine.
The design of the NRC uses modern methods of construction and will be highly energy efficient, with plans for the building to support the NHS ambition to be Carbon Net Zero by 2045.
Work continues to integrate the Smart Hospital design to make the NRC as digitally advanced as possible, with the capability to incorporate additional cutting-edge technology in the future.
Find out more about the construction of the NRC on our NRC website .