Transforming the Newcastle Hospitals

Transforming the Newcastle Hospitals is a major building and reorganisation project bringing hospital services together to improve the quality of patient care.

 

Costing £304 million, it is the biggest health project in the North East and one of the largest in the country. It will see the relocation of all acute hospital services from Newcastle General Hospital to two other sites, transforming healthcare provision in the region for decades to come.

 

The larger of the two developments will be at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI). It will increase the number of beds, and operating theatres for the Trust, as well as providing a whole host of state-of-the-art medical facilities.

 

The New Victoria Wing will include a new Trauma Centre with Accident and Emergency Services, Critical Care Facilities, Neurosciences Centre, Infectious Diseases Unit, Outpatient Clinics, and Diagnostic and Specialist Support Facilities.

 

The Newcastle Children’s Hospital will integrate most Children’s Services into a purpose-built facility adjoining the main development.

 

The project is a complex phased programme; services will begin to move into the RVI in 2009; overall completion will be around 2012.

 

At the Freeman Hospital the development comprises the Northern Centre for Cancer Care and a Renal Services Centre.  Completion will be in the Spring and Summer 2008.