Preston's new hospital gets start date - and it's not any time soon
Building work on the new Royal Preston will not begin until 2030, according to the boss of the trust that runs the hospital.
It was announced last month that the government had agreed to back the preferred option of health service bosses in Lancashire and South Cumbria to develop brand new hospitals for both Preston and Lancaster, rather than the cheaper alternative of refurbishing one or both of the existing estates.
The government has also said that the modular design of its new hospitals will speed up the process of building them. However, the board meeting heard concern about what a potential decade-long wait for a new Royal Preston would mean for the crumbling condition of much of the current Sharoe Green Lane site. A key part of the pitch for a new Royal Preston was the £157m maintenance backlog that has built up across the existing one.
“We will continue to do the best we possibly can with the backlog maintenance, but of course there [are] going to be choices…as we get closer to that 2030 date,” the trust chief said, adding that Chorley Hospital had seen – and would continue to see – significant investment.
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