[Brighton] New hospital building

[PeterT]

Opens today:

'Game-changing': New state-of-the-art hospital building opens to first patients

The first patients are being welcomed and treated at a new multi-million-pound hospital building in the city

www.theargus.co.uk

Having suffered frequent (too many) visits to the old buildings as an outpatient, patient and visitor, this looks like really good news for the area and long overdue.

I already have had an appointment in July changed to the new buildings so will have a better look around then!

 

[Wardy's twin]

Great to have a new building but they don't have enough staff and the hospital is ranked as not performing adequately or whatever the phrase is.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

all very good but in the wrong place. Why oh why didn’t they build it somewhere sensible.

 

[PeterT]

all very good but in the wrong place. Why oh why didn’t they build it somewhere sensible.

I suspect, as we saw when the Amex was built, such new sites are few and far between. That said, there do seem to be sites found for new blocks of flats, eg the old sidings off Sackville Road in Hove and that might have been an option with a bit of forethought.

 

[Superphil]

I suspect, as we saw when the Amex was built, such new sites are few and far between. That said, there do seem to be sites found for new blocks of flats, eg the old sidings off Sackville Road in Hove and that might have been an option with a bit of forethought.

Not enough money in it for the landowners.

 

[Wardy's twin]

I suspect, as we saw when the Amex was built, such new sites are few and far between. That said, there do seem to be sites found for new blocks of flats, eg the old sidings off Sackville Road in Hove and that might have been an option with a bit of forethought.

Nuffield seemed to have managed it with their hospital in Woodingdean, the university seems to continue to expand and masses of new blocks off the Lewes Road

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Nuffield seemed to have managed it with their hospital in Woodingdean, the university seems to continue to expand and masses of new blocks off the Lewes Road

Yes, but even the woodingdean hospital isn’t the easiest to get to.
I would have preferred them to compulsory purchase Goldstone Bottom and build it there where there is much better access near the by-pass and keep a smaller A&E at the RSCH site for more local emergencies.
The current site is just so inaccessible by ambulance, taxi, car, bus and by foot. Parking is a nightmare for staff, patients and visitors. It’s almost as if the council had something to do with it.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Not enough money in it for the landowners.

Exactly this.

 

[Poyningsgull]

Nuffield seemed to have managed it with their hospital in Woodingdean, the university seems to continue to expand and masses of new blocks off the Lewes Road

You can't compare a state of the art hospital with blocks in lewes road that look East Berlin on a bad day.

 

[stewart12]

I suspect, as we saw when the Amex was built, such new sites are few and far between. That said, there do seem to be sites found for new blocks of flats, eg the old sidings off Sackville Road in Hove and that might have been an option with a bit of forethought.

I may be wrong but I think several years before the stadium was being talked about, the NHS were offered the Amex site

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I suspect, as we saw when the Amex was built, such new sites are few and far between. That said, there do seem to be sites found for new blocks of flats, eg the old sidings off Sackville Road in Hove and that might have been an option with a bit of forethought.

Seem to recall a new Cancer Unit being thrown in a sweetener when the Amex hotel was up for planning approval

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I may be wrong but I think several years before the stadium was being talked about, the NHS were offered the Amex site

I think you might be confusing that with the offer the Albion made to house some NHS services on the Amex site if the hotel planning permission was passed.

 

[stewart12]

I think you might be confusing that with the offer the Albion made to house some NHS services on the Amex site if the hotel planning permission was passed.

no I'm talking years before we'd even discussed moving there

I heard about it through NHS circles when I worked for them

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I guess that the tories are counting this as one of the 40

 

[Weststander]

An amazing facility, I'm not going to baulk at £500m spent by the government on our city's critical services. This will be a far better place to work and get well/treatment.

As explained by the clinicians this has been carefully planned eg diagnostics are now located nearer to relevant wards.

 

[Surf's Up]

I may be wrong but I think several years before the stadium was being talked about, the NHS were offered the Amex site

It was certainly under consideration

 

[nickbrighton]

all very good but in the wrong place. Why oh why didn’t they build it somewhere sensible.

The issue with location goes back decades, to the time before the Millenium wing was built. At the time the discussion was had about basically a complete new hospital on a new site, with the eventual closure of RSCH. There were the usual arguments regarding purchasing new land, rededveloping the current site, access and all the million and one other things that makle up a decision.

Ultimatley the powers that be decided to redevelop the current site, and as a result the new childrens hospital, millenium wing, and now the new buildings have resulted

In discussion withher consultant a few years ago while at the cancer centre, my sister was told that the feeling was that a mistake was made in redeveloping rather than a complete new build, however once decided, and the millenium wing, and then the childrens hospital were started, it was simply to late and too expensive to basically scrap it all and start again on a more accesable site -even if one could be found

AS a result we have had years of the main hospital in the south east outside london, trying to keep open and run, whist effectivly being rebuilt around the open areas.

 

[Badger Boy]

Is the A&E department being moved down hill a little bit? It's always seemed crazy to me that it would be at the top of a tonk hill rather than at ground level.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

An amazing facility, I'm not going to baulk at £500m spent by the government on our city's critical services. This will be a far better place to work and get well/treatment.

As explained by the clinicians this has been carefully planned eg diagnostics are now located nearer to relevant wards.

You mention the cities critical services, the name of the sodding place is Royal Sussex County Hospital, and it's near f***ing impossible to get there for anyone not living in Brighton. In totally the wrong place to serve the county.

 

[Blue3]

It is definitely in the wrong place should Have beer built adjacent to Sussex university, it’s massively over budget ( but that’s only to be expected ), the helicopter pad is currently unusable due to its height, it’s taken so long to build that much of the infrastructure is in need of replacement