Shipley MP Philip Davies re-opened the newly-refurbished orthopaedic outpatients’ department at Bradford Royal Infirmary today.

Thanks to the Friends of BRI, the department now has a new reception, tea bar and waiting area – all designed to improve the patient experience.

Mr Davies also toured viewed other developments at the hospital that have taken place during the past 12 months including the new £10 million ward block and the £3 million hi-tech Sovereign lecture theatre opened by Professor Lord Robert Winston in March.

He also saw a project to modernise out-of-date Nightingale wards and introduce more single-sex facilities.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages both BRI and St Luke’s Hospital, has invited all MPs in the Bradford district to view developments at the hospitals.