Project: Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals PFI

Client: The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Value: £311.0m

Contract: PFI

Duration: On Site

Awards: 2009 - Constructing Excellence Leadership in People Development Award

2009 - RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Health & Safety

2009 - Considerate Constructors Silver Award

Central to the reconfiguration of health services in the local area, this project will deliver a new acute inpatient hospital in Wakefield on the existing Pinderfields Hospital site and a new diagnostic and treatment centre in Pontefract.

The new hospital in Wakefield will include 46 departments, 708 beds of which 50% are single en-suite rooms, 1,839 car park spaces and a stand-alone new build pathology building.

The new Pontefract Hospital is almost complete and will include 33 departments, 66 beds and 581 car parking spaces. It will be handed over to the client in November before opening its doors to patients in the new year.

Works on the new hospital in Wakefield continue to make progress and the project is on programme for completion in October 2011, although some facilities will be opened in advance of these dates.

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