Building Projects (Hansard, 29 February 1960)

§ Mr. Walker-Smith

Yes. I have asked hospital boards to bring to completion the planning of a number of additional major projects.

These include work on a number of new hospitals. There is the first phase of a new teaching hospital in Liverpool, a new maternity hospital to replace the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and a new building for the Tavistock Clinic. There are further stages of the new general hospitals for Crawley and Truro, and the completion of those for Harlow and Huddersfield and of the mental deficiency hospital at Oakwood Park, Conway.

The list also includes the first phase of the re-development of the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and a further stage of the development of the Poole General Hospital.

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New maternity departments are propital, Ashton-under-Lyne General Hospital, Burnley General Hospital, Chester City Hospital, Margate General Hospital and Watford. An obstetric unit will form part of a large development at the New Cross Hospital and Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and there will be a new out-patient department at Queen Charlotte's Hospital.

There will be a new ophthalmic block at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and a neurosurgical unit at Walton Hospital to serve the Liverpool hospital region.

Large developments proposed at other hospitals include a surgical block at Derby City Hospital, an operating theatre suite and diagnostic radiology department at the Prince of Wales's Hospital, Tottenham, a new out-patient department for St. John's Hospital, Battersea, and extensions to the Southend General Hospital. There will be a new ward block at the Christie Hospital, Manchester, extensions to the Scalebor Park Mental Hospital at Burley-in-Wharfedale, and improvements to St. George's Mental Hospital, Morpeth. The engineering services at St. John's Hospital, Stone are to be modernised, and new boilers and laundry are included for the Newcastle General Hospital.