Carillion collapse causes further delay to hospital completion
The completion of the £335m Royal Liverpool Hospital has been delayed until 2019 by the collapse of Carillion.
Although the hospital’s opening in March last year has suffered a raft of delays as a result of the discovery of asbestos on the site, the folding of the construction giant with debts of about £1.5bn has compounded matters.
The hospital trust's chief executive Aidan Kehoe said on the BBC yesterday (Tuesday, February 6) that opening the 646-bed site in 2018 would be "challenging".
Louise Ellman MP, whose Riverside... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
