This project is to re-provide the services from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (DCN) in a single building adjoining the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France.
NHS Lothian is committed to maintaining Edinburgh’s reputation as a world-class centre for medicine. Our project to re-provide services from the RHSC, CAMHS and DCN at Little France will help us to provide the people of Lothian, and Scotland, with facilities and services that ensure they receive the highest possible standards of care.
Plans to build a replacement for the current RHSC (incorporating CAMHS) and DCN have been in the making for several years. This project will see a combined building constructed next to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, bringing paediatric care, specialist neonatal care, neurosciences and adult and children’s emergency departments together on one site to create a centre of excellence.
There are significant benefits of having children’s, maternity and adult services on the same site and the proximity to the University of Edinburgh Medical school and the BioQuarter will improve opportunities for partnership working and bring research to the bedside.
It was announced as part of the Scottish Government’s budget for 2011/12 that the re-provision of RHSC and DCN would be funded using the Non Profit Distributing (NPD) Model, with support from the Scottish Futures Trust.
Since then the RHSC and DCN project team has been working closely with the Scottish Government and Scottish Futures Trust to progress the project. The Outline Business Case was approved by the Scottish Government in September 2012.
An advert inviting private sector partners to bid for the
contract to design, build, maintain and finance the new facility was published on the Public Contracts Scotland website in December 2012 and, in-line with European
procurement legislation, in the Official Journal of the European Union. Three organisations, Mosaic, B3 and Integrated Healthcare Solutions Lothian, have been selected to move onto the next phase of competitive dialogue. The preferred bidder is expected to be announced in early 2014. They will then finalise the design for the new building, with work starting on site in the autumn of that year.
The Information Memorandum provides more detail on the project and the pre-qualification process.
The new hospital is due to open in 2017.