Overview of Projects
The New Hospitals for the South West projects will see an investment of over £450 million and transform health care provision in the South West of Northern Ireland.

These projects are leading the Developing Better Services health infrastructure development programme that is being delivered throughout Northern Ireland. The projects will result in two new modern, purpose-built hospitals as well as other health care facilities. These new facilities will be part of a network of hospital care across Northern Ireland and will be integrated with primary, community and mental health services.		  

Links to the following:
* New Acute Hospital for the South West (NI)
* Omagh Hospital Complex
* Medical Equipment Service
* Information & Communication Technology
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The New Hospitals for the South West consists of 4 projects;

Developing Better Services:
Reform and Modernisation of Acute Hospital Services for Northern Ireland
   
  Projects
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  Acute
Hospital		   Medical
Equipment
Supplies		   Information
Communication
Technology		   Omagh
Hospital
Complex		  

Vision and Innovation
The new hospitals are part of the ‘Developing Better Services’ model for the reform and modernisation of hospital services across Northern Ireland. This new model will re-design the way hospitals work, and offer patients rapid diagnostics and treatment.

In the future, there will be more integration among health professionals from different areas, for example GPs and consultants will work more closely, as will hospital staff and home care teams. Staff will be trained in new ways of working and will have access to the latest medical technologies.

The New Hospitals project team is also working to provide new, attractive and well-designed buildings that meet the needs of both staff, patients and visitors.

Project Approximate Value Project Profile
Acute Hospital for the South West £267m Providing acute medicine, surgery, elderly and paediatrics; day and elective surgery, critical care, accident and emergency services, imaging and diagnostics and consultant-led maternity services. These services will work within clinical networks, linked to other centres.
Omagh Hospital Complex £190m approx. Providing local hospital services containing general medicine and a sub-regional specialist renal dialysis unit. The Complex will also incorporate mental health facilities, including acute mental health and a Health and Care Centres
Medical Equipment Services (MES) £15-20m approx. The MES will include items such as MRI, CT and imaging equipment; theatre and intensive care, patient monitoring, laboratory and renal dialysis equipment. An agreed investment plan will cover the takeover, replacement and maintenance of specified equipment and clinical information systems to agreed performance standards.
Information & Communications Technology (ICT) £9m The new hospitals provide an ideal opportunity for a significant increase in the use of the latest technology, changing ways of working to offer patients a better and faster service. Each facility will have advanced, patient centred, integrated information systems. The new systems will be designed to aid closed collaboration between experts. These will enable joint working with other major centres nationally and internationally and support effective clinical networks. Systems will include patient admin, Picture Archiving & Communications System (PACS), Theatre, Pharmacy and Lab management systems.