Wait goes on for much-needed Royal Preston Hospital upgrade as government promises go unfulfilled
Councillors in South Ribble have urged NHS bosses to get on with building a new Royal Preston Hospital.
That prompted the NHS in the region to draw up a list of 10 possible permutations for how any government money would be spent, before the options were whittled down to just four back in March. The prospect of a single new hospital did not make the cut, with the remaining possibilities for the Royal Preston either being a partial rebuild on in its existing site or a new facility for the city springing up from scratch on another plot.
“We need to perhaps stop talking amongst ourselves [and] make a firm decision on a new facility and go for it,” said Cllr Foster, adding that a hoped-for start date for construction work of 2025, for completion by 2030, might not be achievable the longer it took to finalise the plans. Jerry Hawker said in response to the comments that “the need for the investment in these hospitals is absolutely crucial, they are well beyond their service life and that starts to affect people’s care – despite the very best efforts of all of our staff”.
Middleforth ward councillor Will Adams – himself an NHS nurse – said that a new hospital would need other “robust local services” to support it in order for it to be successful. Separately, he told the meeting that the Royal Preston currently has the official capacity for only about 60 percent of the work that is coming through the doors of its urgent and emergency care services.
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