Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: FOI Ref. 8986
1. Can I please make a Freedom of Information request into funding for enabling works requested, allocated and received to date (06/02/23) for projects in the New Hospital Programme?
Trust response: The NHP scheme in Lancashire and South Cumbria is a system programme, working collaboratively across two Trusts (University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), and is known as Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme.
The Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme is aiming to address significant problems with our ageing hospitals in Preston (Royal Preston Hospital) and Lancaster (Royal Lancaster Infirmary). We also need to invest in Furness General Hospital’s infrastructure in the context of its strategic importance and geographically remote location.
The scope of this has not changed. The UHMBT bid for inclusion in the HIP2 scheme (opens in new window), as the national New Hospital Programme was known at the time, was for funding for new hospital facilities for Royal Lancaster Infirmary, as well as investment in Furness General Hospital.
| Project Name | Trust | How much funding for enabling works has been requested? (as of 06/02/23) | How much funding has been allocated for enabling works? (as of 06/02/23) | How much funding for enabling works has the trust received? (as of 06/02/23) | |
| Cohort 4 | Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme (Royal Preston Hospital and Royal Lancaster Infirmary, with investment in Furness General Hospital) | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT & University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT |
£38.4m | £0 | £0 |