Photos show ‘collapsing’, hospital rooms left

A abandoned clinic stands inside one of the busiest hospitals in Nottingham, where the plaster walls are peeling, the roofs are standing and the standing water has flooded the corridor.

During the BBC visit, the head of Estates Michael Soroka said, “This can happen when infrastructure issues are left untreated.”

Other hospital staff said they are worried Delayed by 2037 The government as soon as possible.

The Department of Health and Social Care said that the government inherited the “collapse” and the new timeline was “realistic and happy”.

The former pain clinic in the south block of QMC saw hundreds of patients every year.

It had less than a dozen rooms and people were treated with both neurological and physical pain as part of an outpatient service.

Over time, the poor infrastructure, including the old pipes, was leaking in the mechanical room above, grew at a point where there were many security threats in the clinic and became unusable.

It has been abandoned for the last seven years.

48 -year -old Mr. Soroka, located in QMC, described the position of the former unit as “shameful”.

He said: “It is shameful to see the state in the clinic now. Due to this terrible leaks were leaked and it became impossible to maintain it.

“We need badly new pipes. Pipes and ventilation issues affect every floor.”

The pipework at the hospital was built in 1976 and most sites shares the “plant room” pre -pain clinic pipework.

Plant room store equipment (such as pipes) that run the building safely.

Mr. Sokora said: “The equipment in our plant room is coming towards the end of our life.

“It can cause further leaks if it is not replaced soon.

“We are full of QMC here. Space is a premium, so it is a real shame that this clinic is now unusable.”

Lack of space in the hospital has become more pronounced in recent years.

2023 in winter, Patients “line corridors” As soon as the hospital went out of the bed space in its A&E department.

QMC is also experiencing problems on wards that currently treat patients.

Mr. Soroca said: “We have leaks on some wards – a regular flood on an F floor.

“Any issue is quickly packed up to ensure that they are safe for patients and employees, but have not been addressed to root problems.

“Here the team keeps the hospital moving on its face, but behind the curtain, behind the closed doors, we are struggling.”

Improvement in pipe functions and general maintenance is part of the hospital’s reconstruction scheme, but Mr. Soroca is afraid to wait for more than a decade “too long.”

At the city hospital of the trust, two wings of St. Francis Building, dating back in the 1900s, are also abandoned.

Space was the patient ward in the east and recently became a finance office, but they are now empty.

The failure of the leak and steam system in the roof meant that it became “informal” to maintain space repair.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), a spokesperson of the NHS Trust (NUH), who runs QMC and City Hospital, said: “The building itself can face the test of time, and an excellent place to use for us with proper investment Can be made. “

QMC and City Hospitals were included in the Conservative Government’s pledge for construction of 40 new hospitals by 2030.

Nottingham Hospitals Reconstruction Project, called yesterday’s Nuh, was included in the schemes and was expected to cost around £ 2BN.

Labor Health Secretary Wes Streeting declared last month that work would not start until 2037.

By 2030, 40 news hospitals were plans a conservative electoral promise, he said, he was not cheap.

In a statement, Nuh said that it was “very disappointed” to listen to the work.

Its plans included a new center for women, children and families and a Bespok cancer care building.

The director of major programs at NUH, Phil Britt, which includes yesterday’s NUH said: “We spent years to develop these schemes because we want to make a great change in the hospital.

“This clinic is an extreme example of what can happen, and we had to make a difficult choice to close it and keep our resources elsewhere.

“There is a growing possibility that we will see such places in the next decade if nothing is done.”

A department of a spokesperson of health and social care said: “The new hospital program was completely unrealistic time limit and unfortunate.

“Now we have set a timidline that is both realistic and pleased, with £ 1BN -significant NHS are safe and durable to help ensure hospitals to address backlogs of maintenance and repair backlog.”