The construction of new hospitals for Preston and Lancaster has been pushed back to between 2037 and 2039, according to Health Secretary Wes Streeting. This delay is due to a reassessment of the 40 new hospitals pledge made by the previous Conservative government. The cost estimates for the new hospitals are at least £2 billion for the Royal Preston and £1-1.5 billion for the Royal Lancaster. The NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria has already purchased sites for the new hospitals, but no final decisions have been made.
Guild Hall repair bill, a city centre re-opening bonanza and five other key Preston talking points for 2025Building work on planned new hospitals for Preston and Lancaster will not now begin until the second half of the 2030s – the point by which the facilities had previously been expected to open.
The timetable for the two projects had already been pushed back by the last Tory government 18 months ago, when its previous commitment that all 40 new hospitals would be open by 2030 was scrapped. The then chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – which operates the Royal Preston – said shortly after the last government’s announcement that building work would begin on a new facility for the city in 2030.
Now, under the new timetable, it is possible that the first bricks will not be laid until the tail end of the next decade – which would push the opening dates well into the 2040s. The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Board has been approached for comment on the government’s announcement regarding the new timeline for delivery of the two facilities.
However, Tory shadow health secretary Edward Agar said Labour were guilty of making “all sorts of promises…to win power”.
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