Hospitals: Construction

(asked on 29th April 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 8th May 2019

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.

This evidence is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/planning-assuring-delivering-service-change-v6-1.pdf

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