NHS and High Wood Health consortium reach financial close on major new facility

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A Laing O鈥橰ourke-led consortium has signed a deal to build a 拢270m hospital in Dumfries.

The High Wood Health consortium of Laing O鈥橰ourke and Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners is set to begin work straight away on the 350-bed acute district general hospital for NHS Dumfries & Galloway.

The development is one of five healthcare projects being procured under the Scottish government鈥檚 Non Profit Distributing model. The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide 拢109m on a 26-year loan for the new hospital.

It will provide an emergency care department, a combined theatre complex for day surgery, endoscopy and surgical patients, and consolidated ambulatory care.

David Hunter, bid director for High Wood Health, said: 鈥淭he detailed work we have carried out together [with the NHS team and the hospital] over the past few months has seen the completion of the clinical design and has paved the way for the delivery of a world class hospital; and an approach for construction that will ensure its positive impact upon the local community and economy.鈥�

It is anticipated that the hospital will open to its first patients in the final quarter of 2017.

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