31.08.12
£40m investment for NHS Tayside announced
NHS Tayside is to invest nearly £40m on new buildings by 2015, the health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
The trust will spend £15.6m on capital projects in the next financial year and expects to spend £12m and £9.7m in the following two years. Investment of £10.3m has already been attracted to the area on a nuclear medicine unit at Ninewells hospital in Dundee.
Sturgeon officially announced the investment plans as she opened the new unit.
She said: “Having the right facilities, in the right place is important to people across Scotland and that is why we are determined to ensure both staff and patients the length and breadth of the country can work and be treated in the best possible surroundings.
“This significant investment in health building projects clearly sets out the strength of our commitment to the NHS in Scotland, and will mean that we can provide more sustainable, high quality and continually improving health care services close to home in Tayside and across the country.”
NHS Tayside chairman Sandy Watson said: “The new state-of-the-art Nuclear Medicine Unit and mental health developments are already providing huge benefits for our patients and this further investment in facilities will help to ensure that we have a health service in Tayside which is fit for the 21st century.”
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