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17/10/2011

Builders Hopeful On Dumfries Hospital Bid

Builders are looking to a better future with news this week that a new £200m general hospital development has been proposed in Dumfries.

The project would replace the existing Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary and represent the region's biggest single investment in health care.

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The currently facility was officially opened in July 1975 but NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been working up plans to replace it for some time.

Permission has now been given to draw up an outline business case for a new district general hospital to be submitted to the health board and the Scottish government in the spring of next year.

It is planned to build the hospital under the Scottish government's Non-Profit Distributing (NPD) funding and procurement model - with a huge boost for the beleaguered construction sector as a result.

(BMcC)

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