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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

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AlanM · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:42 am Post subject:

So looks like they'll finally get their way and close the QM and Yorkhill.
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cybers · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:18 am Post subject:

glasgowken · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

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.
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james73 · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

£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
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james73 · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject:

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
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Stuball

Wembley touch for super hospital (BBC)

The company that built Wembley Stadium has won the £670m contract to construct a new "super hospital" in Glasgow.

UK-based firm Brookfield Europe beat competitors Laing O'Rourke and Balfour Beattie to build the New South Glasgow Hospital Campus.

The total cost of the facility, to be opened in 2015, will rise to £840m once roads and equipment have been paid for.

The 1,300-bed facility will be funded directly by the Scottish government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The design for the new hospital campus - by architects Nightingale Associates - was unveiled by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon on Friday.

'Radical design'

"Today marks a major milestone in Scotland's biggest ever hospital building project," she said.

"The designs I've seen for both the new adult and children's hospitals will provide them with world-class facilities.

"All the beds will be single rooms in the adult hospital wards an important weapon in our fight against hospital infections. I look forward to seeing this radical design transforming the Govan skyline."

The new 14-floor adult hospital will have 1,109 beds. Every patient in the wards will have his or her own single en-suite room which will look out to the Campsie Hills, the Clyde or Paisley.

The new five-storey children's hospital, which will have 256 beds and adjoin the adult hospital, will replace the existing Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

Its design includes a covered roof garden and a mix of four-bedded and single-bedded accommodation.
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cybers · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject:

Pity no one remembered wembley was almost 2 years late and 400mi overbudget....
Sorry if my kitchen contractor did that they would sure as hell not be getting the bathroom refit...

Greasy Palms in the NHS

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Stuball · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject:

Some of the pictures make it look quite spectacular with fantastic atriums and grand entrances.... but I'm left wondering why bother? It's a hospital. Surely money could be better spent on something practical and functional. And maybe, dare I say it, patient care?
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cybers · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:08 am Post subject:

They built the finest hospital out here Stu then shipped most of its services to Edinburgh to justify the building of little france E.R.I
Now we have to pay for travel non reimbursable
Parking Non reimbursable
It's a joke and now its getting near election time Mz Lesbo Sturgeon wants to return the services to St Johns.

She wants my vote the services go back first.

The only thing we really have left here in St Johns is the Scottish Specialist Burns Unit.

Entire wings of this place lie dormant....
I fully agree with you make the bloody place functional why bother with aestetics concentrate on the health care.

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