Bills facing NHS Tayside

Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, backlog unit cost: £75m

The main and standby electrical power systems on the Ninewells site are no longer fit for purpose. An approved programme of works to rectify this is under way.

The phased programme of work will be undertaken based on 11 zones across the Ninewells site and will be completed in 2025-26.

The Children’s Theatre Suite (ARCHIE) Project will see the creation of a first-class children’s theatre suite designed and built for children and their families and with significant input from children and families.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Project addresses issues of safety for babies, parents and staff.

Due to it being necessary for the unit to decant for the duration of the building works, the opportunity will be taken to make several additional improvements within the unit itself which will ultimately lead to improvements in the service experienced by babies and families.

Perth Royal Infirmary backlog unit cost: £6m

The board is planning for the new elective care facility to be located on this site.

Plans are being put into place to increase the number of elective care procedures where the hospital will be established as a centre of excellence for elective benign urology and diagnostic urology, elective gynaecology; intermediate general surgery; and elective orthopaedic surgery; specifically arthroplasty surgeries; as well as wide range of day and short stay surgical procedures.

The separation of scheduled and unscheduled care will enable more elective procedures to be undertaken.

Stracathro Regional Treatment Centre (SRTC) backlog unit cost: £4m

To achieve a more effective and sustainable model for the hospital, it is necessary to look critically at how care is delivered. The provision of a mobile theatre on the Stracathro site has progressed for the short term (approx 12 months).

A longer term solution is still under consideration which could provide focused support in improving the treatment time guarantee position for both NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian.

Mobile theatres have never been located on the Stracathro site, therefore enablement work took place over the summer of 2019.