Health bosses back plans for new Woman's Hospital at the Royal
Health bosses have confirmed they want to move Liverpool Women's Hospital to a new building at the Royal.
Health bosses have confirmed they want to move Liverpool Women's Hospital to a new building at the Royal.
The Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group have made public that they prefer to move services to a new site - but say as part of a public consultation they have four options which are being looked at
You can have a read of the options and the reasons below
- Relocate women’s and neonatal services to a new hospital building on the same site as the new Royal Liverpool Hospital 2. Relocate women’s and neonatal services to a new hospital building on the same site as Alder Hey Children’s Hospital 3. Make major improvements to Liverpool Women’s Hospital on the current Crown Street site 4. Make smaller improvements to the current Crown Street site
Liverpool CCG say they believe the preferred option offers the most benefits for patients but have also presented three further options to give people a better understanding of the different issues that have been considered
Andrew Loughney, Medical Director at Liverpool Women’s, said: “Midwives, nurses and doctors at Liverpool Women’s have been central to developing options for the future as part of this review. We are confident that the preferred option is best placed to enable us to address the main issues facing our patients. Moving to a new purpose built building would mean that we could provide the very best care for future generations of people in Merseyside.”
"All four options would require significant capital investment and NHS England and NHS Improvement, the regulators for the NHS, have asked that further work is now done to develop detailed funding plans. This work needs to show how capital funding could be secured and demonstrate that it represents value for money. It is recognised that this presents a challenge in the current environment of constrained NHS resources."
The public consultation is due to start in June - but bosses say they won't make a final decision until next year at the earliest
Campaigners argue the changes are being made due to budget issues. 40'0000 people have signed a petition calling for the site on Crown Street to remain open
Felicity Dowling from the Save Liverpool Women's group said: "Our preferred choice would to renovate the Women's obviously we will read everything they've published but we want to protect the excellent service here for mums and babies of Liverpool that are here now"
"This is a world class service now, I accept they need major investment and links with other specialistics across the city, but we want to stay here and improve here"
Dr Fiona Lemmens, Clinical Director for the Healthy Liverpool Hospitals Programme, said: “It is really important to us that this is an open and transparent process."
"We hope that publishing the draft business case will help the public understand what we’re doing and see how the views they shared with us last summer are being used to shape the future of these services"
"We want to ensure women and newborns receive the very best care possible and we believe the preferred option will allow us to do this.”