Go-ahead for city’s £100m hospital

james73 · Go-ahead for city’s £100m hospital

HERE is the first glimpse of how Glasgow's new Southern General 'superhospital'
will look.

It will take up to 10 years to complete and cost more than £100million, but
when finished will become the UK's largest and most modern healthcare campus.

The move is part of the biggest shake-up of healthcare services in the West
of Scotland for a generation.

Planners yesterday gave the go-ahead for the hospital to be built at the
Shieldhall site.

Staff numbers will more than double with adult, children's and maternity
hospitals being brought together on the one site.

It has also been revealed that health chiefs are to make a "substantial"
contribution towards a hospital access transport scheme.

Bed numbers will rise from 900 to just over 1900 and staff numbers will
soar from 4230 to more than 10,000.

The new Southern General, which will be the main hospital in the south of
the city, will cater for around 725,000 patients each year.

James H

AlanM

So looks like they'll finally get their way and close the QM and Yorkhill.

cybers

glasgowken

I hope they sort the buses out by then, it's a pig to get to from the north west. There should be at least one service from Gt Western Road going through the tunnel.

james73

£742m increase in one month...

£842m price of city’s new Southern General hospital

THE new Southern General superhospital will cost £842million, it was revealed
for the first time today.

The new health "village" will be fully funded by taxpayers' money.

Health chiefs propose to snub the private sector by getting the Scottish Government
to foot the bill for both hospitals - one for adults and the other for children - at
the existing Southern General site in Govan.

The move follows controversy over the use of private sector funding for public
sector projects such as the Labour-approved PFI initiative for Hairmyres Hospital
in East Kilbride.

The SNP is known to favour the setting up of not-for-profit trusts.

Today the Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board were expected to give the
go-ahead to the business plan for the development which will be sent to the
Scottish Government.

Glasgow's health chiefs want to open a major laboratory, a new 1109-bed adult
hospital and a 240-bed children's hospital by the end of 2013.

James H

james73

Public funds boost for hospital

The most expensive hospital to be built in Scotland will be funded by the
Scottish Government.

Public Health Minister Shona Robison said that £842m would be spent
"completely redeveloping" the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow by
2014.

The New South Glasgow Hospital will also incorporate a children's hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will fund about a third of the cost of the
project, but the bulk, £552m, will be provided by the Scottish Government.

Ms Robison announced the funding details on Tuesday morning.

She said: "In considering the options for funding this project, the Scottish
Government has sought to ensure that the project is deliverable, affordable,
sustainable and represents best value for money for the taxpayer.

"With services for all ages - from maternity to paediatric and adult - on a
single site, patients will be able to get immediate access to a wider range
of specialist services for adults, children and babies alike."

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde recommended public funding over private
in its case to the Scottish Government.

The SNP administration has in the past criticised the use of Private Finance
Initiatives (PFI) to fund public sector building projects, a policy followed by
the previous Labour-Lib Dem coalition.

Under PFI, and its "public private partnership" (PPP) successor, a private
sector consortium designs, builds and finances a health institution.

It is then rented back to the health board, which is charged for the running
costs.

Alex Salmond had promised to introduce not-for-profit trusts as an
alternative to PFI, but the SNP's manifesto made it clear that councils and
other public bodies would be able to choose how to fund building projects -
leaving private finance open as an option.

Labour's health spokeswoman, Margaret Curran, said she supported the
rebuild, but also voiced concerns over funding.

"Given the scale of public cash that will be tied up to directly finance this
project, the SNP must explain fully what services are likely to be cut and
what other developments across Scotland are unlikely to go ahead
because of this announcement," she said.

Liberal Democrat MSP Robert Brown also welcomed the project but called
for more clarity over the timescale of the construction work.

James H