The NHS trust that runs Royal Preston Hospital faces a significant repair bill as the construction of a new facility has been postponed until between 2037 and 2039. With the current hospital's maintenance backlog at £157m, the trust will need to reassess its estate strategy and secure additional funding to maintain patient services and working conditions.
Guild Hall repair bill, a city centre re-opening bonanza and five other key Preston talking points for 2025A “significant” amount of extra money will have to be invested in the upkeep of the Royal Preston Hospital now that its replacement is well over a decade away.
Almost 70 percent of the Royal Preston’s facilities were built between 1975 and 1984, with those from that era described as being in a state of “serious dilapidation” in a report setting out why a new hospital was needed. The document said the repair bill was the amount required to “return the estate to an operationally sound condition”.
A spokesperson told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “Following news of a delay to the build of a replacement Royal Preston Hospital, the trust will need to review its comprehensive estate strategy against a new timeline. The 2021 ‘Case for Change’ report noted that more than a third of the Royal Preston’s maintenance costs were related to the site’s “basic functional suitability due to changes or expansions in service provision within buildings designed for another purpose”. It also revealed that there were “episodes of flooding” in clinical areas – directly as a result of the age and condition of some buildings – which sometimes resulted in care being delayed.
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