Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much investment has been made to improve Bournemouth hospital in the last 10 years.

The information requested is not held centrally. University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Bournemouth Hospital, receives funding from national programmes and operational capital. From our national programmes, the trust received the following amounts since 2020:

• £12.9 million from the community diagnostic centres’ Diagnostics fund for development of a community diagnostic centre, providing vital testing to local residents closer to home for the 2021/22 to 2023/24 period;

• £102,000 from our Mental Health Crisis Fund to improve mental health urgent and emergency care facilities in 2022/23;

• Over £9 million from our Elective Recovery Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22 for estate works and digital initiatives;

• £4.3 million in 2020/21 from our £450 million accident and emergency upgrades programme;

• £2.8 million in 2020/21 as part of our £600 million Critical Infrastructure Risk funding to address backlog maintenance across its estate; and

• Over £28 million from the New Hospital programme, for up to 2022/23, in scheme development funding for both their hospital schemes, which includes early works to prepare the sites ahead of main construction commencing.

The trust has also been allocated £147.3 million of NHS Upgrades Programme funding for the reconfiguration of the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital, to a major planned site and major emergency site, with the project currently underway and construction ongoing.

In addition to the above funding, the Dorset Integrated Care Board (ICB), of which the trust is a partner member, has been allocated £61 million in operational capital funding in 2023/24, totalling over £200 million during this spending review period, 2022/23 to 2024/25. This amount is prioritised by the ICB according to local needs.