£1.5M for Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn
The money's coming from the Department of Health
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn has been awarded £1,514,000.
The Department of Health has announced the funding for five projects, which will enable the NHT Trust to complete critical maintenance on a number of our systems including:
Replacement of a boiler and ventilation system in our Sterile Services
Replacement of chillers in our Critical Care Unit
Ventilation update in our Central Delivery Suite
Money for some roof repairs and minor estate refurbishment
Chris Benham, Director of Finance and Executive from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn said:
"We are pleased to have received just over £1.5 million for much-needed upgrades to maintain key parts of our infrastructure. Considerable further investment is needed to modernise our 40-year-old hospital and we continue to lobby to bring a new hospital and attract considerable capital funding to King's Lynn and West Norfolk so that we can ensure we have a hospital that is fit for the future, which is nothing less than our patients, local community and staff deserve."
MP for North West Norfolk, James Wild said:
"The QEH is at the heart of our community, so I welcome this additional funding, which will help the hospital to undertake a number of projects to make improvements and tackle maintenance issues and this comes on top of additional funding to support improvements to A&E.
"I'm working with the hospital on bigger plans for investment, for the QEH to be one of the additional 8 hospitals that the government's committed to. I pressed the Prime Minister on that in Parliament and he confirmed that the Department of Health is continuing to work with the QEH as it develops those plans."