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A number of different sites to build the new Royal Preston Hospital have been shortlisted, but it will be built somewhere in South Ribble.The Conservative MP was speaking after the announcement last week that the government had backed a Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS bid to construct two entirely new hospitals to replace both the Royal Preston and Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
“Putting a brand new, net-zero, state-of-the-art hospital on appropriate transport links [in South Ribble]…will probably be easier for many people in Preston to get to than a bottlenecked Preston site,” the MP posited. “I think we need to look at the social determinants of ill health when more of the population [in Preston] is less well off. Chorley and South Ribble are a lot more prosperous.
The construction of an entirely new hospital on a site somewhere other than the Royal Preston’s current home on Sharoe Green Lane will constitute a major change to health services in the area – meaning that it will be subject to a formal public consultation. Although the government has committed to new-build hospitals for Preston and Lancaster, it also revealed last week that the Lancashire schemes were amongst eight that would not now be completed until after 2030 – the initial planned opening date for the 40 “new hospitals” that were promised in October 2020.
“The new hospital site must have easy, reliable and affordable transport links with good access from public transport and the motorway system.
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