The project to build the new £429million Royal Liverpool University Hospital stalled overnight when the building firm went under in January last year. But new details about the defects, issued yesterday by contractor Laing O'Rourke, which has been drafted in to solve the crisis, make grim reading for patients in the city. Andy Thomson, project director at Laing O'Rourke, said: 'Fixing the structural issues is a complex programme of work, with the added challenge of protecting the existing hi-tech fixtures and fittings in the hospital. Earlier this year it emerged that up to £500,000 a month was being spent on keeping the empty hospital running. Liverpool Labour MP Louise Ellman said: 'The hospital is already two years late and this is another disappointing setback.'

Source: Daily Mail June 09, 2019 23:23 UTC