New Emergency Department at Stepping Hill Hospital gets green light

Plans for a new £30 million Emergency Department at Stepping Hill Hospital have been approved by Stockport Council.

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.

The £30 million extension to the Emergency Department will add 300 sqm of clinical floorspace to the Stockport hospital, and see new assessment, treatment and consultation areas come on stream for key emergency and care services. Plans will add a new children’s emergency department at Stepping Hill, along with enhanced mental health and medical same-day emergency care provision.

Following Stockport Council’s green light for the plans, work on the extension is set to begin later this year.

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.

Imogen Zulver, senior planner at Lichfields, who secured planning permission on behalf of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, said the project will provide much needed community healthcare facilities:

“We have worked closely with the Trust and the local council to deliver this project. The new campus opens a fresh chapter for quality healthcare provision in the South Manchester area, which has been designed to centre around patients’ needs and provide a state-of-the art facility that will benefit the community for decades to come. “

In previous comments about the plans, Karen James OBE, chief executive at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, said:

“These new facilities will help us to provide the safe, good quality care which these patients need.”