Midland: Long, Winding Road to New City Superhospital ; Mark Britnell, Chief Executive of University Hospital Birmingham Nhs Foundation Trust, Remains 'Very Optimistic' That Plans for the City's First Superhospital Will Go Ahead. He Spoke to Health Reporter Emma Brady About the Project's Future

Birmingham Post › January 30, 2006

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If he looks very hard out of his office windows, Mark Britnell can just about see the new pounds 559 million hospital which will replace three of the city's hospitals.

Actually what he can see are fenced off empty car parks, land being levelled and contractors desperate to get stuck into some "meaningful" construction.

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Midland: Long, Winding Road to New City Superhospital ; Mark Britnell, Chief Executive of University Hospital Birmingham Nhs Foundation Trust, Remains 'Very Optimistic' That Plans for the City's First Superhospital Will Go Ahead. He Spoke to Health Reporter Emma Brady About the Project's Future

Already pounds 30 million has been spent preparing the site, but the only building completed so far is a new pounds 12 million multi- storey car park.

After eight years steering the scheme through rounds of red tape and debate, he feels "a mixture of optimism, frustration ...

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