\n She said: \u201cThere were about 150 applicants in that process.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Mel Pickup, Chief Executive Officer of the Bradford Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, made the claim at a meeting on Thursday, when she pointed out that much of BRI was built a century ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n She told members of Bradford Council\u2019s Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee that it would likely cost more to repair, expand and upgrade the existing hospital building than it would to build a new, state of the art hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\n The call was made several years after BRI was overlooked in the Government\u2019s \u201cNew Hospital Programme\u201d \u2013 a scheme that would have seen the hospital and St Luke’s both flattened and re-built on a single site.\n<\/p>\n
Baroness Amos review into maternity care at BRI<\/p>\n
\n The Scrutiny Committee were discussing the Baroness Amos review into maternity care, which was published earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bradford Royal Infirmary was one of the hospitals that the review looked at.\n<\/p>\n
\n The review found that the maternity system in England is no longer fit to consistently deliver high-quality, compassionate care to every woman and family, and requires urgent reform.\n<\/p>\n
\n Numerous concerns were raised about the experience of women experiencing maternity care in BRI.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the meeting Ms Pickup apologised over the findings, and the Amos report was discussed for over two hours by councillors from across the political spectrum.\n<\/p>\n
BRI built nearly 100 years ago<\/p>\n
\n One of the issues was that the ageing \u00a0inner city hospital was not capable of delivering everything expected of a modern health facility.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Pickup said: \u201cWe need a new hospital in Bradford, plain and simple.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBRI is one of the older hospitals in Yorkshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n “In was built, in a large part, nearly 100 years ago, and it has expanded beyond the capability of providing modern health care.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnyone who has used the A&E will recognise this.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe need a new hospital.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Airedale Hospital favoured<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Hawarun Hussain (Green, Shipley) said: \u201cWhat is NHS England saying about this?\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Pickup pointed out that in 2020 the Trust made a case for a complete re-build of the hospital as part of the Government\u2019s New Hospital Programme<\/a>, but it was not supported.\n<\/p>\n \n She said: \u201cThere were about 150 applicants in that process.\u201d\n<\/p>\n