Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what major hospital redevelopments are planned in the next 24 months; and whether those redevelopments include the centralisation of acute hospital sites.
The following table shows a list of major hospital redevelopments that have confirmed capital funding from the sustainability and transformation partnership programme and other funding sources.
Lead Organisation | Scheme | Total Scheme Value £ million |
Under Construction | ||
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust | 3Ts Scheme - three-phase building works to deliver a Regional Centre for Teaching, Trauma and Tertiary Care. | 484 |
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | A new hospital development to deliver more care outside hospital, whilst ensuring a world class facility for urgent and specialist treatment. | 450 |
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Midland Metropolitan Hospital - new acute hospital at Grove Lane, Smethwick site and community facilities. | 340 |
Subject to business case approval | ||
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | Sustainable Services Project. | 312 |
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | One Acute Network – Acute Reconfiguration in Dorset | 147 |
MSB Hospital Group | Reconfiguration of hospital services at the Mid-and-South Essex Acute Hospitals | 118 |
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Project Oriel - a new eye care, research and education facility | 344 |
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | Reconfiguration of hospital services | 196.5 |
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Cambridge Children’s Hospital | Up to £100 million |
With regard to the centralisation of acute hospital sites, NHS England guidance on service change is clear that schemes should not progress to consultation without explicit support from NHS Improvement and NHS England.
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