Glasgow hospital project wins funding

23/04/2008 11:29:27

A new hospital construction project in Scotland has secured public funding, it has been revealed.

First minister Alex Salmond said that the £842 million New Southern Hospital in Glasgow will be paid for by the public, with a children's and adult hospital built on the site of the city's Southern General Hospital.

Construction work on the children's hospital, which will have 240 beds, is expected to take until 2011, while work on the 1,109 bed adult hospital is expected to kick off in summer 2010 and last until 2014.

Mr Salmond said: "Patients throughout the west of Scotland will reap the benefits of single-site hospital care, providing seamless and specialised treatment."

He added that the NHS board had consulted the Carbon Trust in order to create a sustainable design for the project.

People employed in construction jobs on the site will also be responsible for building a new laboratory, while work on an extension to the maternity unit at the current Southern General hospital is set to begin this month.

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