Images Released Of Planned Scarborough Hospital Transformation
Images have been released of how Scarborough Hospital will look when a planned £40 million transformation is completed.
Images have been released of how Scarborough Hospital will look when a planned £40 million transformation is completed.
In 2018 York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust announced it had been successful in its bid for the funding from the Government to create a Combined Emergency Assessment Unit on the site.
A total of £22 million is to be used to create the unit, which would see surgeons and the medical staff working together at the front door of the emergency unit.
The unit will be created alongside the Emergency Department and the on-site Urgent Treatment Centre, creating a “comprehensive and integrated” urgent and emergency care hub.
Dr Andrew Bennett, the trust’s head of capital projects recently gave an update to North Yorkshire County Council’s Scrutiny of Health Committee on the project.
He told councillors that it was hoped the full business case would be signed off by NHS England in April next year with a start date for the work sometime in “quarter three 2021/22″.
The work is scheduled to be completed in October 2023.
When the funding was announced in 2018 the then chief executive of York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Mike Proctor, said:
“This is fantastic for both patients and staff, signaling our commitment to investing in Scarborough Hospital.
“This much-needed development means we can improve and streamline how patients are assessed, admitted and treated, which should reduce the time that people wait in the department, and ultimately improve patient safety.”
In addition to the improvements to the Emergency Department, the funds will also enable essential infrastructure upgrades on the Scarborough site including several million pounds being used to upgrade the hospital’s power supply.
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