Survey reveals £1.7m needed to bring NHS sites up to standard

A new survey puts most of the hospitals, centres and clinics run by NHS East Riding in either a "below acceptable standard" category or "unacceptable" category.

It reveals that "well utilised" 1920s Hornsea Cottage Hospital, which scored a "below acceptable" C, needs 1m spending on it. The cottage hospital's 12 beds will be moved to Beverley, once the new 20m community hospital is built.

Other buildings which were rated "unacceptable" include soon-to-be-mothballed Beverley Westwood Hospital and the Anlaby Clinic.

Even the NHS East Riding's headquarters at Health House, Willerby, is given a D ranking.

A report to tomorrow's NHS East Riding board meeting says the current backlog will be "difficult to address" for the next five years because of limited access to capital.

NHS East Riding say no decision has been made on the future of Anlaby Clinic, which needs 220,000 spending on it.

Alfred Bean Hospital, in Driffield, which needs 120,000 spending on it, will also lose its inpatient services to the new Beverley hospital, but will retain its other facilities.

A spokeswoman said: "Our plans for Alfred Bean Hospital and Hornsea remain as they were in the Community Services Strategy which was consulted on in 2007.

"We will not be retaining beds at those hospitals, as previously reported, once the beds are provided at the new Community Hospital for the East Riding.

"We will continue to provide a range of health care services in Hornsea and Driffield. These include diagnostics, minor injuries, therapies, outpatient services, clinic and day hospital services."