HC Deb 13 July 1966 vol 731 cc205-10W
Mr. Adam Hunter

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make a statement on the progress of the programme of hospital building in Scotland up to the most recent convenient date.

Mr. Ross

During the year from 1st April, 1965 to 31st March, 1966, hospital capital works to the value of £5,243,000 were completed in Scotland the new facilities provided included 539 beds and 7 out-patient departments. At the end of March, 1966, schemes estimated to cost approximately £42,275,000 and to provide 4,173 beds were in progress.

The schemes completed in the year included a new hospital at Fort William, the first phase of a new hospital at Wick, an ear, nose, and throat unit at the City Hospital, Edinburgh, a professional unit at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, a nurse training unit, a clinical unit and limb fitting centre at the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, Edinburgh, a new hospital at Bowmore, Islay and general practitioner maternity units at Hairmyres, East Kilbride, and Duntocher, Clydebank. Those started during the period include a new general hospital and a new mental deficiency hospital at Inverness, a neurosurgical unit at Dundee Royal Infirmary, a new general hospital at Fraser-burgh, an eye department at the Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh, geriatric units at Lightburn, Canniesburn, and Drumchapel, Glasgow, a maternity unit at the Southern

General Hospital, Glasgow, and new laundries at the Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy and at Knightswood and Ruchill Hospitals, Glasgow.

Further particulars are as follows:

SCHEMES COSTING OVER £30,000 COMPLETED DURING THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1965
Estimated Cost £
Portree, Skye—New hospital 147,000
Leanchoil Hospital, Forres—Development 40,000
Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children—Child psychiatry inpatient unit *45,000
Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff—Development, Villa C 64,000
Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh—Renewal of heating and electrical services 102,000
City Hospital, Edinburgh—Non-resident staff accommodation 60,000
Royal Edinburgh Hospital—Major extension 690,000
Stratheden Hospital, Cupar Fife—Renewal of boiler plant including fuel handling and auto-combustion controls 58,000
Rosslynlee Hospital, Roslin, Midlothian—Upgrading sanitary annexes 40,000
Bangour Village Hospital, Broxburn, West Lothian—Electrical rewiring scheme and redecoration 120,000
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow—Convert wards for laboratory 37,000
Royal Alexandria Infirmary Annexe, Paisley—Upgrading of kitchen 46,000
*Non-Exchequer funds.

SCHEMES COSTING OVER £30,000 STARTED DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1966
Northern Region
New Mental Deficiency Hospital, Inverness 1,539,000
Central Hospital, Inverness—Phase 1 1,952,000
Craig Dunain Hospital, Inverness—Heating services 51,000
North-Eastern Region
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary—Reinforcement of electricity supply 45,000
Foresterhill Site, Aberdeen—Foresterhill College of Nursing 340,000
Morningfield Hospital, Aberdeen—Phase II 73,000
House of Daviot, Pitcaple—Conversion to oil firing and alterations to kitchen 45,000
New General Hospital, Fraserburgh 503,000
Chalmers Hospital Banff—Reorganisation of kitchen, etc. 50,000
Eastern Region
Dundee Royal Infirmary—Neuro surgical unit 144,000
Bridge of Earn Hospital—X-Ray department 85,000
Kings Cross Hospital, Dundee—Cubicle block, Phase II 85,000
Estimated Cost £
South-Eastern Region
Milesmark Hospital, Dunfermline—Boiler house 69,000
Administration block, Ward 3 and mortuary department 99,000
Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh—Replacement of boiler-plant 76,000
Chalmers Hospital (Royal Infirmary), Edinburgh-New eye department 678,000
City Hospital, Edinburgh—Laundry extension 64,000
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh—Out-patient department, Child psychiatric unit 150,000
Stratheden Hospital—Renewal of boiler plant, etc. 59,000
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy—Central laundry 291,000
Cameron Hospital, Windygates—Geriatric unit 206,000
Glenlomond Hospital—Renewal of boiler-plant 54,000
Western Region
Glasgow Royal Infirmary—Conversion of accommodation for pulmonary function 112,000
Glasgow Dental Hospital and School—Extension 1,955,000
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow—Maternity unit 1,429,000
New entrance and internal roads 32,000
Drumchapel—Geriatric unit 394,000
Belvidere Hospital, Glasgow—Adaptation of two wards for orthopaedics 64,000
Ruchill Hospital. Glasgow—New laundry 279,000
Western District Hospital, Glasgow—Alterations to vacate Royal Hospital for Sick Children 35,000
Shieldhall Hospital, Glasgow—Geriatric unit 139,000
Foresthall Hospital, Glasgow—Upgrading Blocks G and H 123,000
Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow—Fire precautions 42,000
Computer Building at Western Regional Hospital Board 31,000
Hartwood Hospital, Shotts—Heating improvements 70,000
Rankin Memorial Hospital, Greenock—G.P. Maternity unit 84,000
Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow—Geriatric unit 395,000
Falkirk Royal Infirmary—New nurses' quarters 38,000
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow—Casualty, records admission block 225,000
Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow—Intensive care unit/upgrading 2 wards 82,000
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow—Biochemistry laboratory 48,000
Knightswood, Glasgow—Central laundry and boilerhouse 360,000
Ruchill Hospital. Glasgow—Boiler plant 120,000
Robroyston Hospital, Glasgow—Boiler plant 58,000
Lightburn Hospital, Glasgow—Geriatric units 332,000

Estimated Cost £
Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride—Boiler plant 45,000
Woodilee Hospital, Lenzie—Heating improvements 41,000

ANALYSIS OF THE TOTAL COST OF SCHEMES IN PROGRESS ON 31ST MARCH, 1966, BY TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT
New Hospitals 20,561,000
Additional beds in existing hospitals 8,987,000
Other ward improvements 1,760,000
Out-patient and casualty departments 1,620,000
X-ray and radiotherapy departments 610,000
Operating theatres 768,000
Laundries, kitchens and engineering works 3,227,000
Other departments 4,742,000
42,275,000

SCHEMES COSTING OVER £30,000 COMPLETED DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1966
Northern Region £
New Hospital, Fort William 512,000
County Hospital. Invergordon—Heating 57,000
Central Hospital, Caithness—Phase 1 142,000
North-Eastern Region
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary—Special block—reorganisation of ground floor 62,000
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital—Upgrading of special nursery 30,000
Huntly Jubilee Hospital—Alterations 70,000
Eastern Region
Dundee Infant Hospital—Conversion to limb fitting centre 42,000
Royal Dundee Liff Hospital—New shop and tea-room 32,000
Murray Royal Hospital, Perth—New Pavilion 208,000
South-Eastern Region
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh—Scottish Hospital Centre 92,000
City Hospital, Edinburgh—Ear, nose and throat unit—Pavilions 2 and 3, Ward 4 and provision of operating theatres 291,000
City Hospital, Edinburgh—
Medical residency 84,000
Pavilions 8 and 5 146,000
Laundry extension 64,000
Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, Edinburgh—Nurse training unit, clinical unit, limb fitting centre 210,000
Northern General Hospital, Edinburgh—Renewal of boiler plant and upgrading of services 76,000
Royal Edinburgh Hospital—Professorial unit 320,000
Herdmanflatt Hospital, Haddington—Admission unit 92,000
Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital—Provision of twin theatres 88,000
Stratheden Hospital, Cupar—Renewal of boiler-plant 59,000
Western Region
Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow—Intensive care unit/ward upgrading 82,000
Western District Hospital, Glasgow— £
Alterations to vacate Royal Hospital for Sick Children 40,000
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow—Upgrading geriatric assessment wards 37,000
Bowmore, Islay—New hospital 180,000
Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride—G.P. Maternity unit 96,000
Cleland Hospital, Lanarkshire—Upgrading Pavilion 1 38,000
Duntocher, Clydebank—G.P. maternity unit 117,000
Killearn Hospital—Department of medical neurology 40,000
Coathill Hospital, Coatbridge—Kitchen upgrading 52,000
Falkirk Royal Infirmary—New kitchen, pharmacy, etc. 206,000

SCHEMES COSTING OVER £30,000 STARTED DURING THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1965
Estimated Cost £
Ross Memorial Hospital, Dingwall, Ross-shire—Maternity and physiotherapy departments 117,000
Balfour Hospital, Kirkwall, Orkney—New maternity unit 64,000
Ladysbridge Hospital, Banff—Development, low grade villa K 61,000
Dundee Royal Infirmary—Extension of pathology laboratory 32,000
Murray Royal Hospital, Perth—New pavilion 193,000
Stracathro Hospital, Brechin, Angus—Psychiatric unit 46,000
Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital—Provision of twin theatres 75,000
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh—Maternity unit adaptions 44,000
Royal infirmary of Edinburgh—
Extension to haematology laboratory 30,000
Clean linen department; maintenance of services 23,000
City Hospital, Edinburgh—Engineering Services 98,000
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow—Upgrading geriatric assessment wards 37,000
Knightswood Hospital, Glasgow—Central infusion laboratory 47,000
Royal Scottish National Hospital, Larbert Stirlingshire
3 ward blocks, etc. 261,000
14 staff houses 53,000
Killearn Hospital, Killearn, by Glasgow—Department of medical neurology 40,000
ANALYSIS OF THE TOTAL COST SCHEMES IN PROGRESS ON 31ST MARCH, 1965 BY TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT
£
New Hospitals 16,464,000
Additional beds in existing hospitals 6,398,000
Other ward improvements 1,965,000
Out-patient and casualty departments 1,292,000
X-ray and radiotherapy departments 535,000
Operating theatres 826,000
Laundries, Kitchens and engineering works 2,214,000
Other departments 2,609,000
£32,303,000