Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, one of Labour’s PFI hospitals, will cost nearly TWICE as much as giant Glasgow hospital to build , is only just over HALF the size and costs EIGHT times as much to maintain annually

By Legerwood

The new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary [900 beds compared to QEUH at 1 677 beds], one of Labour’s PFI hospitals was budgeted at £150 million to build but ended up costing £180 million to build. The PFI cost will be £1.3 Billion [QEUH £842m] but Lothian Health Board will not own it.

As well as the PFI costs the Health Board had to pay an ANNUAL maintenance cost of £60 Million [QEUH £7.8m]. Dwarfs any such costs for QEUH.

https://www.scotsman.com/health/ps60m-a-year-contract-thrown-into-doubt-1620362

The SNP eventually managed to get that annual cost reduced. They also managed to buy out the private parking contract so that staff and visitors no longer have to pay parking charges.

8 thoughts on “Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, one of Labour’s PFI hospitals, will cost nearly TWICE as much as giant Glasgow hospital to build , is only just over HALF the size and costs EIGHT times as much to maintain annually”

  1. Same as the Holyrood building, same as Edinburghs’ trams.

    The labour party in Scotland can NEVER be trusted to be involved in anything concerning Edinburgh, or any other part of our country.

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  2. Sorry for going off topic!

    It is relevant to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, and dated 4th February 2025.

    The BBC Scotland website had it in their ‘Glasgow and West’ sub-section.

    https://hospitalsinquiry.scot/sites/default/files/2025-03/Note.pdf

    “The public inquiry into patient safety at Scotland’s biggest hospital has lost a legal challenge over its decision to reject new evidence from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC).

    Last year, NHS GGC submitted a 218-page report to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry claiming the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus had no excess infections since 2015.

    This was in conflict with an independent review, which connected the deaths of at least two child cancer patients in part to infection linked to the hospital environment.

    A judicial review has now decided the inquiry was wrong not to consider the health board’s report.

    The long-running public inquiry is examining safety and wellbeing issues at hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

    It rejected the health board’s submission, saying it would delay the inquiry’s progress and turn it into an “adversarial contest”.

    NHS GGC sought a judicial review of this decision at the Court of Session, which it has now won.

    The judicial review ruled the decision not to accept the submitted was “wrongly decided and consequently unfair”.

    A spokesperson for the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry said: “NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde sought to have a new report included in the [third phase of the Glasgow] hearings, which took place last year between 19 August and 15 November last year.

    “A draft of the report was provided to the inquiry on 10 July, before the final version on 24 July.

    “Lord Brodie refused NHS GGC’s application for reasons of principle and practicality.

    “If the report had been accepted to be heard as evidence during [this phase of the hearings], the hearings would have been postponed.”

    It said it noted the judge’s decision and it would now consider the evidential relevance of the health board’s report.

    NHS GGC said: “The questions being examined by the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry are of significant public concern and the importance of having expert opinion on these matters remains high.”

    It added: “We will engage with the inquiry team about the next steps in submitting a fresh application for the inquiry to receive the independent expert report.”

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  3. No, no. Our wondrous British mejah will tell you it straight……..it costs more to SAVE us more. And it costs us more but saves us more decade after decade until it gets pulled down and we go again.
    BEEB Scotland takes the same money from us, as it does in England, but because it doesn’t spend much in Scotland, it’s obviously SAVING us a fortune! Same deal!
    Ask Labour and they will say…..”we have never had it so good……rolling in money”. Backhanders? Skimming off the top? You know it makes sense!

    gavinochiltree

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  4. Yep. After this hospital had been opened, the heating system was dysfunctional, it was too hot far as I recall, needed fixing coding I wonder how much…
    Also the SNP has invested in expanding the hospital since it was opened, because it was not fit for capacity and services required by the city of half a million people. Remember also Labcons at Holyrood started to dismantle the Western General hospital in Edinburgh, which is a major research facility for cancer etc,and, saying as then they would have left Scotland with one dysfunctional newly built very expensive hospital on the outskirts of the city, it does not bear thinking about had they closed down the Western as they intended to do!! Again the SNP have invested in the WG, it’s crucial to the city. Just an aside the Labour/Tory council with their dodgy roadworks have blocked roads to both hospitals over the past three years, in no hurry to reopen routes, putting lives at risk due to big diversions.
    I find that highly suspicious.
    Also the SNP scrapped parking charges for hospital staff, which given the ERI is way out of the city centre, was essential. The ERI building far as I know will never be owned by the people whose, pair through the nose for it, and it will remain in private hands, just as another massive kick in the teeth for Edinburgh and Scotland. Kick kick kick.
    SNP need Todo some reminding of exactly what the English HQ LABOUR lot did in Scotland in a few short years, it was disgraceful, wasting so much public money on their PFI scheme, which in fact was and is a massive scam.
    Oh and aren’t several Scottish councils still in debt to the these PFI private companies, to the e tune of £billions, including Labour run Edinburgh. You could hardly make it up could you.

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  5. THE CONTRACTORS AND UNIONS MUST HAVE MADE AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE FROM THIS CONTRACT

    VERY SAME AS THE FRAUD CARRIED OUT ON SCHOOLS BUILDINGS

    where many of them still have DEFECTS

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