Plans for a surgical hub in Scunthorpe have been approved
It's thought the development could help ease local waiting lists for elective surgeries
Plans for a surgical hub in Scunthorpe have been approved.
The development could help ease local waiting lists for elective surgeries, where surgeries are scheduled in advance. A single-storey building will be developed on land off Normanby Road, close to the town’s driving test centre.
The hub will include a reception and waiting area, consultation rooms, a physio room, recovery unit, 12 patient en-suite bedrooms, a resident medical officer (RMO) en-suite bedroom, as well as staff areas and storage. Sheffield-headquartered One Health Group plc is behind it.
It is an independent provider of NHS-funded medical procedures, for patients referred through ‘Patient Choice’ for treatment in orthopaedics, spine, general surgery, gynaecology and urology. The planning permission marks a major shift for the provider as it looks to develop a network of such hubs.
Construction work on the Scunthorpe hub will commence in due course, with a proposed opening in late Summer 2026. “Our ambition to develop a network of surgical hubs is key to our longer-term accelerated growth strategy, supporting rising NHS demand and offering surgical capacity growth in under resourced areas across the North of England and the Midlands,” said Adam Binns, One Health Group’s chief executive officer.
“We’re delighted to confirm that our first site will be in Scunthorpe, and that our first surgical hub there will bring both localised specialist surgical services and employment to a much-deprived area.
“As reiterated in recent days, key to the government’s 10-Year Health Plan is delivering more care in the community away from NHS hospitals,” he said, adding this had been a cornerstone of One Health Group’s approach to care of NHS patients for over 20 years. Its community-based outreach clinic network “will be complemented and enhanced with the addition of surgical hubs,” he said..
“The NHS is increasingly looking to independent providers for additional support, and we are confident that the additional capacity provided by our first Surgical Hub, will complement the ongoing organic growth driven by our existing community-based outreach clinics and third party surgical operating locations.”
The surgical hubs are expected to deliver significant additional surgical operating capacity in regions with limited provision of NHS services. Scunthorpe’s surgical hub will employ up to 20 staff. Besides the building’s facilities, there will be 30 parking spaces, and eight cycle spaces, as well as a footpath linking to an adjacent bus stop on Normanby Road.
One Health Group currently treats around 12,000 patients a year across its existing sites. The Scunthorpe facility would work alongside the NHS and independently. The site the hub will be developed on is currently unused scrubland.