Prospect Healthcare have awarded akp's healthcare division with the contract to relocate the chapel at Hairmyres Hospital, Lanarkshire, and undertake alterations within the cardiac cath labs.

The contract worth £550,000 will involve moving the chapel to a new location within the ground floor of the hospital next to the cafeteria, as well as carrying out the interior fit out.

Ian McEwan, akp Scotland's Managing Director, said: "Hairmyres Hospital features Lanarkshire's only cardiac catheterisation centre which includes two high spec labs. In place of the current chapel we will create a seven bed recovery ward which will further strengthen the facilities within this vital heart treatment centre. By relocating the chapel, visitors and patients will also benefit from an improved environment."

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Located in East Kilbride, Hairmyres Hospital is a district general hospital comprising of 415 inpatient beds.

In the past fourteen years akp's healthcare division has delivered over 300 projects for this growing sector including a £7.2m contract creating a new cardiothoracic centre for the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank. The company is also currently on site at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary as principal contractor on a new £7.6m Gynaecology Unit.

(GK/JM)