Freedom of Information data reveals extent of risk from reinforced concrete panels at the hospital.
By Matt PreceyThe "likely" collapse of reinforced panels in a hospital could be "catastrophic", new documents reveal.for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire found levels of concern over the use of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete .She said it was "dreadful" that staff and patients "were expected to tolerate unacceptable risks".
Caroline Walker, chief executive for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, said it was keeping "a very close eye on the RAAC structural issues". "We are focusing on redevelopment plans for Hinchingbrooke which would see us build a new hospital on the site, thus eliminating our RAAC issues, by 2030," she said.Reinforced planks made from RAAC have been used in roofs, floors and walls of NHS buildings and schools built in the 1960s and 1980s., where ceilings are supported by more than 2,400 props.
"It is dreadful that trust staff and patients have been expected to tolerate these unacceptable risks," she said, "and that trust staff have been forced to invest so much energy in managing dangerous, dilapidated buildings, instead of delivering care."More than 2,400 props are supporting the ceilings at the Queen Elizabeth in King's Lynnin Bury St Edmunds, which the BBC obtained last year.
The true extent of the risk at the Cambridgeshire based hospital isn't known due to some of the RAAC panels not being surveyed because of access issues.
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