Financial close reached for two-hospital project

The PFI-funded initiative will deliver two new hospitals as part of the Health Board’s hospital modernisation programme. A further £20 m will be invested in equipment bringing total investment to £200 m. The centres will be based at the Stobhill Hospital campus and next to the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, offering one-stop diagnostic and treatment centres that are purpose-built for outpatient, day care and day surgery.

Currie & Brown is the lead technical adviser on the project, working closely with healthcare specialist, Atkins, Keppie Design and consulting engineers McLay Collier.

Alastair Stewart, divisional director at Currie & Brown who leads the project, said: “This is one of the largest and most complex PFI healthcare projects in Scotland, involving the design and cost management for two hospitals at the same time. When complete, it will provide stateof- the-art health facilities for the people of Glasgow in a modern care system.”

The construction phase of the project is on target to be completed in 2009 and the two centres will handle approximately 800,000 patient attendances every year.