Still plenty of debate about the exact location for new LancsHospitals site. But the actual date for a new hospital is going backwards 🏥
– almost two years after the Preston and Lancaster sites were named as one of the 40 “new hospital” schemes that the government had pledged to build by 2030.
A search for land within a 10-mile radius of the exiting Preston and Lancaster hospitals has been ongoing since last year. The LDRS can reveal that the focus for the new Royal Preston has been on finding a location to the south of its current Sharoe Green Lane home. The hold-up is a result of five other hospitals being drawn into the programme – and prioritised for complete rebuilds – after they were deemed to be in a dangerous condition as a result of the type of concrete used to construct them, which puts elements of the structures at risk of collapse after the end of the material’s lifespan.
However, the pandemic put the brakes on the process and, in February 2021, then health secretary Matt Hancock ordered that it be scrapped altogether until a new consultation option was included that would have allowed for the retention of the A&E. In a statement after confirmation of the new builds came early on Thursday evening, Kevin McGee, chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals, said that building new facilities on new sites would be “truly transformational ”.
“We look forward to working closely with the national New Hospital Programme team to determine the specific allocation of funding for Lancashire and South Cumbria so that we can understand what this means for our local communities.”
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