Royal Liverpool University Hospital

A major redevelopment of the hospital began in 2013 and was scheduled for completion in 2017, but construction problems and the 2018 collapse of main contractor Carillion meant it did not open until late 2022.

[1] It had been agreed to amalgamate the separate facilities on a site in close proximity to the University of Liverpool for the purposes of medical education and research.

[2] The construction was plagued from the outset by problems of cost, time and quality, together with difficulties over fire certification due to changes in health and safety law whilst building work was ongoing.

[6][7] In March 2017, the project was running more than a year late due to problems caused by asbestos, cracking concrete and bad weather,[8] and further delays were announced in early January 2018.

[14] On 24 September 2018, it was reported that the government would step in to terminate the PFI deal, taking the hospital into full public ownership, meaning a £180M loss for private sector lenders Legal & General and the European Investment Bank.

[25] A delayed National Audit Office report into the government's handling of the Royal Liverpool and Midland Metropolitan University Hospitals was published in January 2020.

The report warned of possible further significant cost increases, particularly to rectify the badly-built Liverpool project, and blamed Carillion for pricing the jobs too low to meet specifications.

[31] In January 2023, the BBC reported that senior medics at the hospital claimed to be "embarrassed, ashamed and demoralised" by the care they can give at the new A&E, calling the department "overcrowded, chaotic and unpleasant".

Main Entrance and Emergency Department at the former Royal Liverpool University Hospital (completed in 1978)