New Royal to begin taking in patients recovering from virus next week

Part of the Liverpool hospital Laing O鈥橰ourke was drafted into complete after Carillion sank into liquidation will reopen next week to accept patients recovering from covid-19.

O鈥橰ourke was brought on to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital job in October 2018 after Carillion鈥檚 implosion in January of that year.

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The unit will have space for 65 patients

The firm has finished a so-called 鈥榮tep-down鈥� unit at the site which will help patients recover from covid-19 and other conditions.

It has been built in what will become the Acute Medical Unit for the new Royal.

It will be able to care for up to 65 patients with 25 patients due to be transferred there from the existing Royal and Aintree University Hospital next week. It will have 130 staff, including physiotherapists and occupational therapists, plus healthcare assistants, nurses and doctors.

The new hospital is not expected to complete until 2022 and will cost another 拢300m on top of its original 拢335m budget to finish.

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