A preferred site has been earmarked for a new hospital in Weymouth. Land near the ambulance station, off Mercery Road, was identified as the best location – although most of the area is now planned for a shopping and restaurant scheme, expected to start later this year. Other plots may be available in the area, behind the ambulance station, or adjacent to it, owned by New Look, although neither is currently on the market. Sites elsewhere in the town were also up for consideration, although it has not been revealed where. Other options for Weymouth include refurbishing and improving the existing community hospital (pictured below); demolishing most of it and re-building on the same site, or selling the land for development.
A HAMPSHIRE programme is backing a multi-million pound drive to design a hospital of the future. UK Space Agency has launched £5m drive to design hospital of the future in collaboration with the Hampshire Together programme. The government has invited the UK’s world-leading innovators to help design a new ‘space age’ hospital that could use technologies and techniques pioneered on missions to Mars or the International Space Station to help treat patients and make life easier for hard-working NHS staff. Up to £5 million of UK Space Agency funding is available to support a joint initiative with the Hampshire Together: Modernising our Hospitals and Health Services programme.
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10:25 AM April 5, 2021
When it opened in the early 1980s, the QEH was expected to have a working life of 30 years
- Credit: QEH
A steel frame is being installed to prop up part of a crumbling hospital.
The hospital, which was built with an expected working life of 30 years in the late 1970s, is still in service more than four decades later and reinforced concrete planks used in its construction have started to fail.
An example of one of the 131 props in place around the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King s Lynn, including its kitchen and Rudham ward.
- Credit: QEH