Aintree hospital development

Aintree University Hospital has been given planning permission for £20m of new facilities for patients requiring urgent hospital care.

Chief Executive Catherine Beardshaw said: “This decision is fantastic news and will enable us to ensure we can continue to provide the best quality care to patients in modern, fit-for-purpose facilities. The work will help us meet demands for some of our busiest areas.”

The cash means the Accident and Emergency, Critical Care, Cardiology and Fracture Clinic departments will all be transformed. It is expected the work will take just over two years to complete.

The A&E department will be extended to allow more room for patients receiving treatment and new ‘see and treat’ rooms will be built to help the flow of patients through the department. The Critical Care Department will also be expanded to allow an additional 24 beds for the hospital’s sickest patients.

The Fracture Clinic will move into a new purpose-built department to improve access for patients requiring treatment and Cardiology will also be centralised to ensure greater access between the department and coronary care.

The project will be entirely self-funded by the Trust and forms part of a long term hospital-wide development that has already seen a new Elective Care Centre, Physiotherapy Department, Diabetes Centre, Therapies Centre and refurbished Radiology Department.

The building project will involve several months of disruption and access roads to the hospital may face diversions. Information about these will be posted around the hospital and will appear on the website for visitors and patients travelling to Aintree University Hospital for treatment.