By Val Sweeney Published: 17:30, 12 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Deborah Jones, of NHS Highland, at the site where new treatment centre is going to be built. Construction work is finally set to begin in earnest on the £42 million world-class National Treatment Centre Highland in Inverness early this year. The project, being developed by NHS Highland at Inverness Campus, will have 24-bed inpatient rooms, five operating theatres, clinics and outpatient departments offering healthcare for bone, muscle and eye conditions. The long-awaited project has been hit by delays and rising costs but is set to transform the experience for patients undergoing a range of orthopaedic and ophthalmology procedures such as hip and knee replacements or cataract surgery when it opens in autumn 2022.