The hospital projects

1.3  The two hospital projects are summarised in Figure 1 overleaf. Both hospitals are intended to improve NHS services for people in their surrounding areas, by providing modern facilities to replace ageing existing hospitals and enabling local health services to be redesigned in line with changing needs.

Figure 1

The two hospital projects

 

Midland Metropolitan Hospital

Royal Liverpool University Hospital

The project

669-bed hospital in Sandwell, West Midlands, replacing two existing hospitals.

646-bed hospital in central Liverpool replacing the existing hospital.

Expected benefits

Modernised services in a single site acute hospital.

Reduced risk to services from current hospital's poor condition, meeting changing healthcare demands.

NHS Trust

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust ('the Sandwell Trust' or 'the Trust' in this report)

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust ('the Liverpool Trust' or 'the Trust' in this report).

Notes

1  Work to demolish the existing Royal Liverpool hospital and develop an underground car-park and public plaza in its place was not included in phase 1 of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project and is subject to future business cases.

2  On 1 October 2019, while this report was being prepared, the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust merged with another NHS trust to form the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Source: National Audit Office