A Merseyside hospital is set for a multi-million-pound boost thanks to a partnership.
Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals are both looking at a £4.25m windfall thanks to their recent partnership with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals.
Southport Hospital will see £1m directly invested into a new discharge lounge that will be next to the main entrance of the hospital.
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Work on the new facilities has already begun and look to be completed for March of this year.
Ormskirk Hospital is also set to see £2m invested in a temporary, standalone endoscopy unit.
The unit comes in addition to half a million pounds being invested into the upgrade of the existing unit in the main building.
A mobile CT scanner to be used across the hospitals will also receive funding as well as other services not yet revealed by the trust.
Anne-Marie Stretch, managing director of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, said: “By working together, the two trusts have successfully secured a significant early investment in our future together.
“It comes on top of the clinically-led work we’re doing to stabilise our fragile services, such as the haematology collaboration which has allowed us to reopen the Southport and Ormskirk service to new referrals for the first time in more than a year.”
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