Changing the face of London's healthcare

Europe's newest hospital, and the UK's largest ever PPP-funded and operated healthcare facility--the 650 pounds sterling million Royal London in Whitechapel--opened its doors on 1 March--following years of hard work and planning which has seen doctors and nurses involved throughout, working under the guidance of a 30-strong Barts and the London NHS Trust New Hospitals Programme team to create an optimal healing environment. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, discussed with New Hospitals Programme director, Matthew Tulley, the challenges of overseeing the design, planning, and construction, of the 'new' Royal London as part of a wider 1 billion pounds sterling PFI project to transform and modernise facilities at both the Barts and the Royal London sites, and of smoothly moving over 3,000 staff and patients from old to new accommodation.