{"id":8775,"date":"2023-11-08T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:22:16","slug":"highly-commended-in-the-building-better-healthcare-awards-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/highly-commended-in-the-building-better-healthcare-awards-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly Commended in the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"rank-math-breadcrumb\"><p><span class=\"last\">Home<\/span><\/p><\/nav><p><span style=\"color: #006b89;\"><strong>The new Royal Eye Hospital in Derriford built by MTX for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has been highly commended in the Building Better Healthcare Awards category for Best Modular\/Mobile Healthcare Facility.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bbhawards_highlycommended_2023.jpg\" alt=\"BBH Awards \u2013 Highly Commended 2023\" width=\"168\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bbhawards_highlycommended_2023.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bbhawards_highlycommended_2023-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/>MTX also sponsored the Grand Prix Award, awarded by the judges to the \u2018best of the best\u2019 across all\u00a0eight building design categories. It was won by Medical Architecture\/Scott Tallon Walker Architects for the National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital in Portrane Demesne, Ireland, which was awarded Best International Healthcare Facility.<\/p>\n<p>MTX Managing Director David Hartley, who attended the awards ceremony with the MTX team that completed the REI project, commented: \u201cAs specialists\u00a0in healthcare construction, and specifically the use of Modern Methods of Construction, MTX has\u00a0occupied a position at the cutting edge of building technology and innovation for the last 40 years. So, we\u2019re excited\u00a0to sponsor this prestigious award\u00a0for a project considered the best representation of the next generation of healthcare facilities. And what better way to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the Building Better Healthcare Awards?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The new three-storey REI in Plymouth is located off the main Derriford Hospital site.\u00a0 It brings together outpatient and surgical eye treatments previously provided within the main hospital and includes three operating theatres, an increased number of treatment rooms and an expanded area for young patients.<\/p>\n<p>Development of the new Royal Eye Infirmary at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth was made possible through the innovative FLEX managed services project package developed by MTX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTX Highly Commended in the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2023 for the new Royal Eye Hospital in Derriford, for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtx.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}