Royal London Hospital Beds Figures and some PFI figures

Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust (PCT) did not have the information requested.

Muhammed Iqbal

Dear Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust (PCT),

With reference to this article in the East London Advertiser on the 4th April 2011, yesterday

"More than 100 beds to go at new East End hospital - before they are even opened

By Nadia Sam-Daliri
Monday, April 4, 2011
3:42 PM

Campaign group Health Emergency says cuts to the NHS have left Bart’s and the London NHS trust, which is behind the new Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, with a bill for hospital space it “cannot afford to run”.

The new £1billion construction is being paid for through a private finance initiative (PFI).

This means the developers, Skanska and Innisfree will put up the cash now and be paid back over 42 years.

But Health Emergency says the PFI – which is the most expensive for any hospital in the country - will leave the trust paying back five times the amount it owes.

Dr John Lister, Health Emergency’s information director, said: “The PFI is a horrendously flawed system. Costs will go up year by year. Jobs and treatment for patients are the things that will be sacrificed.”

The group said that cuts imposed by central government place the trust in a difficult position, as it has less cash coming in but soaring debts.

Earlier this year Barts and the London NHS trust announced it was scrapping over 600 jobs to deal with government cuts.

The trust said it is misleading to describe the cost of any new hospital in terms of bed numbers.

The PFI provides the “best solution” to replacing outdated facilities, it said.

The new hospital will have 32 operating theatres, improved intensive care wards and cutting edge equipment for diagnosis and treatment.

A spokeswoman added: “[The investment] covers some of our clinics for outpatients - the majority of the patients we see and treat - who do not require inpatient beds.

“It is crucial to note that over the 42-year lifetime of our PFI contract, almost half the costs are associated with vital support services, such as cleaning, catering and patient transport, which all acute trusts incur as part of their normal operational expenditure.”
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/ne...

Please could you provide the following statistics for numbers of beds within the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel;

1. Please list current figures for beds within the above mentioned hospital - please list figures stating ward names first, then amount of beds in each ward, then any further divisions within that ward, ie; acute, intensive care etc.. Finally listing a total for all beds.

2. Please list future figures for beds - using where possible the same criteria as in the request above ie; ward names etc - that are at present forecast once the new sections of the hospital are complete.

3. Please list the current total yearly running costs of the Hospital at present leaving out any figures associated with the new build cost.

4. Please list the future forecast/estimated total yearly running cost showing any and all payments for build cost including interest payments to building companies such as Skanska etc as part of the PFI contract.

5. Please list the total cost of the regeneration of the Royal London Hospital Site, also detailing payments (forecasted/estimated or otherwise) per year for the 42 year period listed in the East London Advertiser Article above as part of the PFI contract.

Please when showing the final response could you include the actual content of this emails request as part of that response? This is for your own FOI website readers use, as just showing responses can sometimes leave people perusing your site confused as to what the nature and content of the requests actually state.

Yours faithfully,

Muhammed Iqbal

FOI, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust (PCT)

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Dear Muhammed,

Further to your recent request please find attached our reply.

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Ball

FOI Lead

Corporate Performance and Development

NHS East London and the City

Warehouse K

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London E16 1DR

Tel. 0207 0596746

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NHS East London and the City is a cluster of three primary care trusts;
NHS City and Hackney, NHS Newham and NHS Tower Hamlets

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