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Hospital set for a £19m extension
From the Amesbury Journal, first published Thursday 28th Feb 2002.
Major construction work is set to start at Salisbury District Hospital with the building of a £19m extension.
The project is the biggest development on the Odstock site since the £27m district hospital was built in the early 1990s.
Local people are to be given the chance to have their say in the design of the building and its internal layout.
The new building, to be erected at the northern end of the site adjoining the district hospital, will house the world famous burns unit, elderly care and orthopaedic wards, plastic surgery and maxillo-facial outpatient services.
It is intended that the orthopaedic wards will move into purpose-built accommodation, all acute medical and elderly care wards will go into the new building and a new unit will be provided for plastic surgery, maxillo-facial outpatients and supporting services.
The majority of these services are located in the older part of the hospital to the south of the district hospital and moving them to a new state-of-the-art building will see the closure of many of the Second World War buildings.
It is also planned to reopen the hospital laundry - formerly on the Old Manor hospital site in Wilton Road - on the new site.
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