Emergency department for Scunthorpe Hospital gets green light
North Lincolnshire Council have approved plans for a A&E department on land which is currently being used for offices and parking.
The multi-million pound development has been funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England and will also include an Acute Assessment Unit (AAU).
It will be staffed by specialists who deal with a range of conditions and illnesses, allowing patients to be seen and treated more quickly, often without the need to be admitted to a ward.
What will be on site?
• An increased waiting area to cope with demand and social distancing requirements
• A dedicated play area for our younger patients
• More cubicles, which have been designed to enable flexible use, which will help us manage surges in patient numbers and make it easier to meet individual patient needs.
• A dedicated ambulance bay, reducing the time to transfer patients arriving by ambulance into the hospital
The trust has been awarded £40.3 million from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme which will also allow work to start on significant energy improvement schemes at its three main hospital sites across Goole, Scunthorpe and Grimsby, which should deliver annual savings in excess of 5,000 tonnes of CO2.
When will it be built?
The first stage of the Emergency Department development will be to create a new single-storey decked parking area close to the Church Lane entrance to the site, replacing the spaces on the site of the new building and work is due to start in mid-April.