Royal Sussex County Hospital

(asked on 15th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of the beds and what propotion of the facilities planned under the 3Ts redevelopment of the Royal Sussex County Hospital are planned to be used by private patients; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 22nd July 2014

The decision to outsource or bring services in-house is the responsibility of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Board, which will make these decisions in due course.

We are advised by the NHS Trust Development Authority that the trust has not earmarked beds for the use of private patients. The trust has made a small allowance of 633 square metres of floor area for private patient facilities within the new development (representing 0.68% of the total planned floor area), but not bed capacity. The cost of equipping this area would fall either directly to the trust or a private patient facility operator, and the Trust Board will decide in due course whether to proceed with a private patient facility or an alternative use. We understand that any money generated from private patients would be reinvested to directly benefit National Health Service patients at the hospital.

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