The SMTL Quality Assurance department has recently completed a testing programme for the Swansea Bay University Health Board at their new Theatre Suite located at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, an investment of more than £6m.

The newly built theatre suite and supplemental areas have been cleverly designed to be incorporated to existing theatre infrastructure, fitted with three new state of the art operating theatres which is set to become the health board’s Centre of Excellence for Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgery.

SMTL were tasked with the airborne microbiological testing of all Operating Theatres to validate the cleanliness of these commissioned theatres prior to use. The new theatre project went extremely well as planned and within schedule, with all performing within expected parameters.