It’s topped out!

The final brick has been laid at the site of the new, purpose-built £2m Chesterfield Royal Hospital Health and Wellbeing Hub.

Funded by Chesterfield Royal Charity, the first-of-its-kind hub will provide modern facilities for all 4,500 members of staff on the hospital site.

Badged ‘caring for carers’, it will provide services and facilities for hospital employees. 

Due to open next spring, and open seven days a week, facilities will include counselling rooms, complimentary therapies, gym equipment, and areas for group or individual reflections after traumatic incidents. 

Beverley Webster OBE, chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Hub Development Board; and Atulkumar Patel MBE, chairman of Chesterfield Royal Charity were tasked with laying the final brick on the hub – known as a topping out ceremony.

As well as laying the brick, there was also a sneak peek inside of the hub to see how the rooms are starting to take shape.

Webster said: “It’s so exciting to see the hub take shape.

“The initial vision is becoming a reality and I cannot wait to see how all colleagues benefitting from it.”

Construction work is being carried out by Stepnell.