Sarah Townsend
A business case for the second phase of the West Cumberland Hospital redevelopment in Whitehaven has been approved, following completion of the first phase in 2015.
Outline consent was awarded in October and a full planning application is expected to be submitted in the coming months.
The £40m second phase of the hospital redevelopment is intended to upgrade facilities for patients and staff to create a better environment, while retaining bed capacity and services and improving the hospital’s ability to undertake additional planned operations in future.
The scheme is being delivered by North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, which completed the first phase, which cost around £90m and saw the opening of the new hospital building, in 2015. Subsequent work completed in 2019 to open a breast screening department and redevelop the cardiology and vascular services at the hospital.