STRUCTURE: NHS Portsmouth has opened a new outpatients department on the site of St Mary’s Hospital.
The PCT is leading on the project to convert the former St Mary’s maternity and paediatric blocks into community health facilities including a new midwife-led
maternity centre, 12 to 16-bed GP-led intermediate care wards for patients and daycare for the elderly.
The buildings - known as Blocks A and B - have been vacant since Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHT) transferred its services to the redeveloped Queen Alexandra Hospital in 2009.
Around two thirds of the St Mary’s site is being sold off by PHT, but NHS Portsmouth is redeveloping the rest of the site.
The Department of Health is contributing £17.1m to the £18.6m scheme, with NHS Portsmouth the other £1.5m.
Other services to be provided in the building will include podiatry, phlebotomy, speech and language therapy, chronic disease management, medical
records and social services.
The outpatients department in block B is the first facility to open.
Work on the entire campus is due to be completed in late 2011, with the site becoming fully operational in early 2012.
Source date
January 25, 2011
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