Department of Health: Cost over-runs, funding problems and delays on Guy's Hospital Phase III development14

2  The Treasury approved in principle the development of Guy's Hospital Phase III in December 1986 at a cost of £35.5 million and with a planned completion date of December 1993. The development was finally finished in April 1997 after the cost had increased to £151.8 million. The Committee of Public Accounts report included the following recommendations:

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14  Committee of Public Accounts (1999) Department of Health: Cost Over-runs, Funding Problems and Delays on Guy's Hospital Phase III Development, Twenty-eighth Report 1998-99 (London: HMSO).