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Construction work has begun on a new £30 million emergency and urgent care campus at Stepping Hill Hospital.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is investing in a major new facility to transform the hospital’s A&E unit and provide a more efficient healthcare facility to offer patients, families and carers the highest quality care and support. Plans for the site were given the green light by Stockport Council in July this year and include new assessment, treatment and consultation areas for several key emergency and urgent care services including the children’s emergency department, mental health, and medical same day emergency care across 300 sq metres of clinical floorspace.
The extension to the hospital will be in addition to plans currently in development to build a brand-new hospital in the town centre on the site of the current Debenhams building, subsequent to securing government funding for the scheme.
As work gets underway, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is warning of changes to traffic restrictions at Stepping Hill Hospital. The main restrictions during this period for vehicles driven by both staff and members of the public are that there will no longer be the option to wait in vehicles at the hospital main entrance, and there is now a one-way system in the area between the Poplar Grove entrance and the Bramhall Moor Lane entrance, which includes the Emergency Department (A&E) area. Vehicles can only left or right at the Pinewood House bus-stop junction, rather than go straight on. Vehicles entering the site from the Bramhall Moor Lane entrance will now only be able to turn left. Access for emergency ambulances, buses and construction vehicles will be unaffected.
Construction on the new emergency care campus is set to complete by March 2024.