More than £3m spent already on starting hospital project again

The ‘New Healthcare Facilities’ project commenced in January 2023 after a £30,000 Government review – led by Infrastructure Minister Tom Binet – concluded that the previous ‘Our Hospital’ plan for an £800m health campus at Overdale should be scrapped in favour of a new multi-site solution.

Now, a response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Law has revealed that, by the end of February, £3.2m had already been spent on the project.

In comparison, a total of £83.8m was spent on the Our Hospital project between its inception in 2019 and its termination in 2022.

This works out as roughly £400,000 spent per month on the Our Hospital project, whereas expenditure on the New Healthcare Facilities project totals about £1.6m per month so far.

The FOI response also revealed that £9.8m of the Our Hospital project’s total expenditure related to direct design and professional fees, broken down as follows:

Design and Professional Fees	(£m)
Health Planner & Clinical Design Team	1.4
Project Management Office	3.2
Cost Management Consultants	1.3
Design Quality Assurance and NEC Supervisor	1.4
Property & Planning Fees Consultants	2.5
Total costs	9.8

Spending on the Our Hospital Project ended on 31 December 2022, with spending on the New Healthcare Facilities project commencing on 1 January 2023.

So far, £299,000 of the New Healthcare Facilities project spending is related to design and professional fees.

Under current plans, the island won’t have a full suite of new healthcare facilities until 2031. Previously, the target completion date for a new health campus at Overdale was 2026.

More than £3m spent already on starting hospital project again

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