£80m North Middlesex PFI hospital project up for grabs

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is the latest healthcare trust to advertise for a major private finance initiative project.

The north London project is expected to cost around £80m and will have a 30 year concession period to cover on-going facilities management and maintenance provision.

The project requires the construction of a new hospital on the current North Middlesex University Hospital site at Sterling Way, London, N18. The single phase development will involve the re-provision of around half of the Trust's estate to achieve co-location of all its services within a single modern facility.

The services will include accident and emergency services, diagnostics, theatres and critical care provision. A total of 151 beds will be provided.

The private sector has until 21 February 2003 to express interest in the project.

The North Middlesex scheme follows hard on the heels of a number of other major PFI hospital schemes to come out to tender in the last two months of 2002.

Recent schemes include: the £200m Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust project at Pinderfield General Hospital and Pontefract General Infirmary; the £200m St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust project at the Whiston, St Helens and Newton Community hospitals; the University of Leicester NHS Trust's £400m project at the city's Royal Infirmary, General Hospital and Glenfield Hospital; a £90m scheme at the Churchill Hospital for the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust; and finally the £100m scheme at the Broomfield Hospital for Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust.

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