Surgical equipment first for Ayr hospital

Reckoned by the medical technology specialist to be the UK’s most advanced such facility, the theatre was completed in just nine weeks – in a turnkey project which saw Olympus Medical deliver elements including initial planning, room design, construction, and sourcing and integration of third-party products. 

University Hospital Ayr, on the southern outskirts of Ayr, is a district general hospital operated by Scottish Health Board, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, that provides inpatient, day case, and outpatient medical and surgical services to a population of around 376,000, houses the Emergency Department (ED) for South Ayrshire, and provides a number of Ayrshire-wide services – including vascular surgery, ophthalmology, urology, and audiology. 

The seeds for a new integrated laparoscopic operating theatre to complement the hospital’s five general surgical and four day case theatres were sown about three years ago. The goal was to provide a fully integrated 4K theatre equipped to enable surgeons to undertake a greater range and volume of bariatric surgery in a purposedesigned environment using equipment that would provide optimal visibility of the surgical field and precise control of all components.