All systems go for £240 million Milton Keynes Hospital redevelopment plan
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The hospital off Standing Way needs to grow because of the planned increase in the city’s population over the coming years.
Thursday’s meeting of the board heard that they need a new four-storey women’s and children’s hospital on the site because maternity services are “maxed out” at 4,000 births per year.
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They are planning to be able to cope with 6,000 births a year.
John Blakesley, the deputy chief executive said: “It is essential that we do think ahead.”
He added that paediatric services were running at “110 per cent”.
The hospital is also making progress, after seven years, on getting a new radiotherapy centre on the site.
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Dr Ian Reckless, the hospital’s medical director, said a meeting on Wednesday had provided something of a breakthrough.
“We’ve been talking about it for years and yesterday felt like the first time everybody was on the same page,” he said.
Since a contract with Genesis Care ended in November, patients have had to travel outside the city for treatment.
Dr Reckless said that the “patient experience had deteriorated in recent months.
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“Now everybody wants it and supports it, it’s now a question about how we progress that to have a facility on site, then work through and deliver it.”
The hospital has plans for a £15 million imaging centre, a new surgical block, and a new multi-storey car park.
Mr Blakesey said that some £37 million might be available to get the projects going after a full case is presented in November.