Army

The British Army's New Field Hospital

A state-of-the-art new medical facility is being put to the test for the first time.
 
33 Field Hospital are on exercise testing the “Project HAPTIC” concept.
 
The hospital is a clean zone, kept uncontaminated by the use of airlocks.
The hospital is a clean zone, kept uncontaminated by the use of airlocks.
The whole footprint of this new deployable military medical facility only just fits inside a 400 metre running loop.
 
It can be shipped anywhere in the world on five days notice and erected again, in just five days.
 
Personnel from 33 Field Hospital have recently returned from deployments to Nepal and Sierra Leone in support of UK aid missions.
 
Tim Cooper explored the new state of the art facility.
 

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