Hospital maintenance costs (FOI)

Request

A

Please confirm the total expenditure spent on our General Hospital for remedial work to maintain the buildings and services each year from 2010 to 2019 inclusive.

B

Please confirm the budget allocated to be spent on our General Hospital for remedial work to maintain the buildings and services each year from 2020 to 2025 inclusive.

Response

A and B

General Hospital Maintenance Expenditure:

*Backlog maintenance is maintenance funded from a Government Capital bid that is necessary to prevent the deterioration of an asset or its function but which has not been carried out.

The 2020-2023 Government Plan set aside a budget of £5m in 2020 for Health and Community Services (HCS) backlog maintenance. The budget is to cover all properties that sit under HCS, not just the General Hospital.

£5m has been committed to HCS backlog maintenance projects for 2020. However, 2020 plans are currently on hold due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and will need to be reviewed once business as usual resumes.

Health and Community Services manage a risk rated (RAG) schedule of works which covers 2021-2023 however, that has not yet been ratified due to ongoing reactive essential maintenance. The 2021 schedule of works will be reviewed throughout 2020 and collated between October and December for final draft.

Backlog maintenance Capital funding for 2024-2025 will not be confirmed until later Government Plan’s are issued.

B

Forecast revenue expenditure for the years 2020-2025 on maintenance to the General Hospital building;