{"id":723106,"date":"2026-06-08T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723106\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:18:08","slug":"troubled-aberdeen-hospital-project-faces-further-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723106\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubled Aberdeen hospital project faces further delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Project approval was given more than 10 years ago, but building work did not start until 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Construction &#8211; at the main Foresterhill campus in Aberdeen &#8211; has been hit by problems including issues with water and ventilation systems and design issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March, BBC Scotland News revealed wall panels and insulation have had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwykz3gejwwo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ripped out<\/a> due to mould. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Infection control teams sounded the alarm after construction materials were allowed to get wet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Baird Family Hospital will offer maternity and breast-screening services, as well as a neonatal unit and operating theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Anchor Centre will bring together services including radiotherapy, oncology, haematology and research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report by project director Ian Matthewson will go before the NHS Grampian Board on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Project approval was given more than 10 years ago, but building work did not start until 2021. Construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-723106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}