§ Mr. Butterfillasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement on the hospital building programme in Dorset.
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§ Mrs. Currie[pursuant to her reply, 30 June 1987, c. 78]: Dorset is benefiting from the largest ever sustained National Health Service capital building programme. Current hospital building schemes in Dorset include the first phase of the West Dorset district general hospital costing £10.5 million, which is due to take its first patients in September 1987, and the first phase of the Bournemouth district general hospital costing £14.1 million, which is due for completion in December 1987. At Poole general hospital an extension to the maternity unit costing £1.5 million will soon become fully operational, and work is scheduled to commence on 6 July on an assessment/day unit for elderly people, costing £3.6 million. Work is also scheduled to start in July on a mental illness unit at St. Ann's hospital, Canford Cliffs, at a cost of £2 million. The second phase of the Bournemouth district general hospital is approved at a cost of £13.7 million and is scheduled to follow immediately upon completion of the first phase.