Consort Healthcare was appointed preferred bidder on the 30 year, £152.5 million Fife General Hospitals and Maternity Services project in January 2007.
It will deliver a 49,000m2 new hospital wing linked to the existing Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and will centralise specialist inpatient, acute and emergency services on one site.
Future developments outside the PPP project include for the re-configuration of services at the Victoria and Queen Margaret Hospitals (Dunfermline) once the new wing has been completed.
The health board, NHS Fife, is undertaking a realignment of healthcare services, guided by the following strategy:
- Separating planned care from urgent care
- Better community based access to diagnostic services
- Community based casualty departments to provide the majority of unscheduled care
- The concentration of specialised or complex care on fewer site to secure clinical benefit
- Beds: 525 (in new build)
- Area: 49,000 m2
- Staff: 3000 (total on Victoria Hospital site)
We look forward to taking this forward with Consort who are as committed as we are to; delivering modern, high quality services.
