Glasgow's NHS Louisa Jordan is costing over £2.3m per month to run, new figures released by the Scottish Government have revealed.
The temporary emergency hospital, constructed within the SEC Centre, became operationally ready back in April, and was planned to have an initial capacity for 300 beds with the capability to expand to accommodate 1000 patients.
However, it has not been required during the coronavirus pandemic, and has instead been used as a facility to provide large scale clinical training for over 700 healthcare students and staff.
The facility has also seen around 1,800 patients for outpatient and screening purposes.
Of the £2.37m a month costs to manage and run the hospital, £2.3m is spent on management costs, £45,000 is spent on pay costs to cover staff employed directly to support the NHS Louisa Jordan, and £31,000 is spent on 'other operating costs'.
The Scottish Government figures also revealed that the total build cost of the hospital was £30.8m.
£17m of the £30.8m was spent on its construction, with £10m spent on equipping the hospital to make it operationally ready to receive coronavirus patients - including almost £4m on beds.
A further £1.09m was spent on digital costs and £1.6m on other set up costs such as security and catering.
Correction: an earlier version of this story used the headline 'Glasgow's NHS Louisa Jordan costing over £2.3m per month to run despite having no patients' - this has been corrected to reflect that the Louisa Jordan is used for outpatient and screening purposes. We apologise for any confusion caused.
