LONGBRIDGE accommodation which houses Military Medics is due to re-open on Armistice Day.
Glenart Castle Mess was closed for maintenance works back in July and hasn’t reopened since.
But government bosses have confirmed the mess, which opened back in 2017 as purpose-built accommodation for military medics working at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) at
Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, will reopen back to its original use on Tuesday, November 11.
Northfield MP Laurence Turner asked the Secretary of Defence, Luke Pollard, for an update on the works in the House of Commons on Monday.
The home secretary said works, which have involved an upgrade to the building’s water system infrastructure, were progressing well and were 90 per cent complete.
The RCDM is the primary receiving unit for military patients, with all operational casualties since June 2010 being treated there.
The new accommodation was named the Glenart Castle Mess, after a First World War hospital ship.
