Our plans for Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals

We are continuing to revise first stage business cases for both our Charing Cross and Hammersmith schemes. We have recently been awarded funding to complete this work and to embark on first stage design and planning early next year. We expect to publish summaries of the cases, as we did for St Mary’s. We are also working up an engagement programme to share these high level plans and options with patients and local communities and to gather feedback and suggestions.

As both schemes involve refurbishment with some new build elements, once the outline business case is approved, we will be able to progress detailed design and build in discrete phases, as and when New Hospital Programme capital funding becomes available. This will put us in a position to make use of phased capital funding over the coming years, including to make the most of any slippage in the overall New Hospital Programme.

Both hospitals incorporate aging estates, with frequent estates and infrastructure failures, and require around £10 million annually each just for the most essential maintenance.