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Royal Liverpool Hospital PFI deal could be ditched
A private finance deal to allow work to resume on the Royal Liverpool Hospital could be scrapped, as ministers deliberate on taking it into full public ownership.
The new £335 million NHS hospital, which was originally set to open in March 2017, is about 80 to 90 per cent complete but cannot be completed until a new contractor is appointed, following the collapse of Carillion at the start of the year.
As things stand, private sector contracts relating to the project are due to expire before the end of the month.
The 646-bed hospital was due to be completed with fun ding secured under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI), but now faces work not being completed until the middle of 2020, with the cost of fixing the problems left by Carillion, including repairs on beams in the structure, having increased drastically and local MPs, including Liverpool Walton Labour MP Dan Carden, calling on the government to intervene.
If the government does intervene, the decision would leave taxpayers facing an additional financial burden from Carillion's demise, but, on the flip side, would expedite the delivery of a flagship new hospital in Merseyside.
NHS bosses recently claimed that the new hospital was built with unsafe cladding that does not meet fire safety regulations.
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