Final approval has been granted for a new state of the art development at Upton Hospital in Slough.

Frimley Health Trust plans to build a £25 million diagnostic centre on an unused area of the site on Albert Street.

The trust hopes the centre will ‘transform health services in the area with faster and easier diagnostic services for local people’.

The centre will be open seven days a week, 12 hours a day, and will provide up to 150,000 extra tests per year for the community.

Plans for the centre were approved by councillors on Slough Borough Council’s planning committee in February last year.

But the councillors left it to their planning officers to sign off on details such as transport and drainage designs before granting full approval. Formal planning permission was granted on Tuesday, August 6.

The service will boast the latest technology with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, computerised tomography (CT) scanners and ultrasounds, and will diagnose and improve outcomes for patients with conditions including cancer and heart disease.

James Clarke, Chief Strategy Officer, and leading the project on behalf of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust said: “This centre will greatly benefit the community by offering convenient access to diagnostic tests, reducing hospital visits and enabling early detection and treatment of serious illnesses.”