{"id":770408,"date":"2026-09-14T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770408\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:38:09","slug":"no-delays-to-new-hospital-opening-in-plymouth-says-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770408\/","title":{"rendered":"No delays to new hospital opening in Plymouth, says trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no delay to a Plymouth emergency care building opening in 2029, a health trust has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a3247m project is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c046r31003zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replace Derriford Hospital&#8217;s 50-year-old emergency department<\/a> and double current capacity when it opens in spring 2029, said the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the old emergency department would become a dedicated children&#8217;s emergency department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Originally the trust said the project&#8217;s &#8220;anticipated completion date&#8221; was winter 2028, but said it now remained &#8220;on track for completion&#8221; for 2029 with no delays to the programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the earlier date had &#8220;reflected the construction programme and the point of practical completion, which is when the building itself is handed over following construction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As with any major healthcare development, there is then a period of commissioning, testing, equipment installation, staff training and operational readiness work before patients can safely be cared for in the new facility,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no delay to a Plymouth emergency care building opening in 2029, a health trust has confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}