Thank you to Nick Hulme and Nick Sammons at ESNEFT for showing me the progress being made on the new £64m Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Colchester Hospital. This brilliant new facility, serving North Essex and East Suffolk is the largest of it's kind in Europe at over 11,000 square metres and will open this year. Eight theatres, three wards, a physio gym, day surgery and recovery centre and imaging department. I am proud to have played a part in securing the funding for this new surgical hub which will benefit patients for decades to come.