Morrison Construction has completed the first phase of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital campus redevelopment project.

The £48 million scheme has been handed over to NHS Lothian and preparations are now underway to relocate staff/facilities to their new base throughout 2017.

Phase one works included building the Royal Edinburgh Building to provide services for the adult acute mental health inpatient service, older people's mental health assessment unit, Intensive Psychiatric Care Service (IPCU) and the new Robert Fergusson national brain injury unit.

The rest of the redevelopment will be carried out in two more phased stages, subject to full business case approval and financial close. The second stage will include a new Integrated Rehabilitation Facility, a newly refurbished MacKinnon House and a new Facilities Management Centre.

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Jo Elliot, Chair of developer Hub South East Scotland, said: "I am delighted to mark the handover of Hub South East's first revenue funded health facilities and largest completed project to date. 

"Hub's involvement from the beginning, helped shape the plans for this campus redevelopment and it's exciting to be able to tour the new facilities and see the modern spaces patients and staff will soon be using. It's also with great pride that we can demonstrate a range of community benefits, from supporting thirty apprentices and thirty seven new jobs during construction, to awarding 94% of work packages to Scottish SMEs."

David Wilson, Operations Director for Morrison Construction, added: "Morrison Construction was appointed by Hub South East and NHS Lothian to deliver the new Royal Edinburgh Hospital campus phase one and we are delighted to have fulfilled this goal. 

"The new hospital is a first class facility and will transform and enhance healthcare for patients and staff and I very much look forward to seeing the hospital campus up-and-running and welcoming patients in 2017."

(LM)