Building Our Future Together – investing in our hospitals

We are seeing activity increase across all our sites as key developments take place to ensure we can deliver the best health outcomes for our patients and staff can see benefits from a new way of working too.

We’re moving into the New Royal this autumn, so currently wards and services are beginning to prepare for the move, which includes induction training for 7,500 staff and detailed move plans for each area to ensure patient safety is maintained.

At our Aintree site we’re creating a new Hyper Acute Stroke Unit that brings together the stroke services from Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals as well as the Royal so that patients will receive expert specialist care in one place, including a therapy suite for rehabilitation.

Aintree’s wards and services are being reconfigured and remodelled which includes expanding our Urgent Care and Trauma Centre to create new hybrid theatres that combine surgery and imaging, so when trauma patients arrive they can be assessed quickly, in one place by our specialist trauma team.

You can view a full ‘roadmap’ on page 8 of all the moves taking place at Aintree!

At Broadgreen we’re making plans to introduce more elective (planned) surgery and the Theatre Teams are successfully carrying out more day-case operations which allows patients to return home quickly, avoiding the need for long hospital stays and reducing the risk of infection. We’ll be opening a new surgical day-case unit which will ensure more patients can undergo their operations.

New Royal move update:

• We took partial possession of the New Royal on 11 July

• We trained 30 members of staff (pictured) to train 150 induction trainers who will then cascade training to 7,500 colleagues!

• The Level 10 restaurant is now fitted out with tables and chairs

• All the office furniture is now in place

• Retail space is being fitted and final tenders from retail companies awarded

• The link bridge - second lift is scheduled to take place in August

• Wayfinding app created for patients and staff.