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Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Hospital rebuild could cost up to £1.5bn
Work to replace a hospital with a brand new building could cost up to £1.5bn, councillors have been told. Airedale Hospital, near Keighley, which serves parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, was built using collapse-prone reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) and had been earmarked for a complete rebuild under the previous government's New Hospitals Programme. Work on the rebuild could begin in 2028, a meeting of Bradford Council's Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee was told. However, a report by council officers said the scheme would be "complex and come with considerable challenges". The hospital serves 220,000 people living in the Bradford and Craven districts. Plans to rebuild it were confirmed by government earlier this year following a review of the scheme – with Airedale selected as one of the first wave of hospital rebuilds. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, a report prepared for the council meeting said: "A capital funding envelope of between £1bn and £1.5bn has been confirmed, recognising the need to completely rebuild the hospital. "Building the new hospital will be complex and come with considerable challenges. "We need to make sure services remain safe and can continue effectively during construction." Before work could begin on the new building, works including the creation of a new access route from Skipton Road and construction of a new multi-storey car park will would need to be carried out, the meeting heard. Stuart Shaw, director of strategy, planning and partnerships at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said the new hospital would be "a taller building, more than two storeys". "The current hospital is a 1960s build. It is two storeys over a huge space, with long corridors connecting different buildings," he said. "The new build will be more compact." He told councillors it would have a similar number of beds to the current hospital. Mr Shaw said he had been told the start date could be 2028, but he did not currently have a completion date. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here. New hospital plans to continue despite NHS review Crumbling hospital's rebuild will go ahead Calls for fresh pledge on hospital rebuild Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Local Democracy Reporting Service
BBC News
05-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Airedale Hospital among first to trial cancer care app
A Keighley hospital has become the first in the North to pilot a new app to support cancer the next 14 months the cancer team at Airedale General Hospital will offer the Careology app, which provides round-the-clock app is designed to help users manage their treatment and side-effects, as well as update their records between cancer nurse Caroline Salt successfully bid for £238,000 of funding for the trial from the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance. She said: "We're the first hospital in the North to be able to trial it which is very exciting."This isn't about substituting any nursing or medical staff, this is about supplementing the care we can already give."Every new and current patient at the hospital receiving cancer care can download the app which was created by private firm Careology but is run by the can use it to get information and guidance about how they are feeling and whether or not they need to contact the and family can also use a Caregiver app to get help or advice with the consent of the Salt joined Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in 2023 and hers was among 57 bids for the Cancer Alliance's innovation competition last four were chosen for said: "If you are a cancer patient, or a carer of someone with cancer, and you are being treated at Airedale I would definitely urge you to download the app."This is a pilot and we are really keen to hear our patients and make sure we provide the best cancer care possible at Airedale Hospital." 'Improve care' The Careology app is used by the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Marsden Hospital, both in Pawluk, managing director of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance, said: "We invested in this impressive proposal because of the opportunities to improve care for people receiving mainly non-surgical oncology treatments."And also the possibility of sharing learning from Airedale more widely across the patch, subject to evaluation."There are 21 Cancer Alliances in the UK which were set up to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for cancer patients in their local to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here, external.
