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Midland Metropolitan Hospital to open in 2022
The Midland Metropolitan Hospital is set to open in 2022 after the government and local NHS agreed to finish construction work.
Construction work had begun on Midland Metropolitan Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, under a private finance programme, but was halted when Carillion went into liquidation earlier this year.
The new agreement will see the government provide funding for the remainder of the building work at Midland Metropolitan Hospital, which, when completed, will be the first new hospital in England’s second largest urban area since 2010, containing 15 operating theatres and at least 669 beds.
It will be an acute centre for the care of adults and children, as well as offering maternity care and specialised surgery to approximately 750,000 residents.
Health Minister Stephen Barclay said: "Our long-term plan for the NHS will see it receive £20.5 billion a year more than it currently does by 2023, but our commitment does not stop there, as this important partnership shows. We are not only giving patients in Sandwell and west Birmingham world-class NHS facilities on their doorstep, but also showing our determination to build an NHS fit for the future – all whilst making sure taxpayers’ money is spent in the best possible way."
Toby Lewis, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust chief executive, said: "After a huge amount of work by teams across Whitehall and the trust, and with the voices of local residents, clinicians, and stakeholders having been clearly heard, we are delighted that we now have a definitive, publicly financed plan. We will continue to engage with the construction market over coming weeks and build towards a formal procurement by November this year. We always said Midland Met would be delivered and the doubters were wrong. The Prime Minister’s promise is being honoured.
"Midland Met will open in 2022, and by then our partnerships with local GPs, schools and care homes will be even deeper and more integrated than today. This is a vote of confidence in our publicly financed construction plan, and in our Sustainability and Transformation Plan as a whole. The new hospital is about improving the outcomes of patient care and about regeneration and public health. We need to finish the job and seize the benefits."
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