£2.6m for an extra four hospital car park spaces
Wednesday 27th October 2010, 6:59PM BST.
Health bosses in Wales have come under attack for spending £2.6 million on a new multi-storey car park for Bronglais Hospital which will create just four additional parking spaces.
The original 223-space car park at the hospital in Aberystwyth, is being replaced by the new multi-storey car park with 227 spaces.
The upgrade, which will be completed in December, works out at £655,000 for each extra space.
The hospital is used by dozens of Mid Wales residents each year, especially those based in Machynlleth.
Nick Bourne, leader of the Welsh Conservatives and AM for Mid & West Wales, labelled it as “ludicrous”
He said: “It seems ludicrous when public money is so scarce.
“It should be spent on frontline services such as doctors and nurses, not on expensive car park schemes that don’t generate enough additional spaces to make a considerable difference.”
But a spokeswoman for the Hywel Dda Health Board, which runs the hospital, defended the decision, saying that the revamp resulted in other benefits.
“This work has included improving access to the site, demolition and rebuilding work, road and service engineering, installation of fibre optic cabling and re-routing main utilities,” she said.
“All of this has been essential to free up space for the new build element of the front of house scheme and has been an integral part of the largest capital investment in the hospital’s history.
“This investment has been subject to significant scrutiny.”
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So £2.6m in total, some of which was for the car park, the rest of which was for other work.
Please would you stop with the sensationalist headlines? Leave them to the red-tops.
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Statistics,lies and damn statistics.
Did you know that 23.27% of all journalists do not check their figures or sources?
Neither do I
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I think you’ll find it’s 23.29 per cent.
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Andrew – behave!!!!
:-)
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