The new James Paget Hospital is being delivered through the New Hospital Programme, with an allocated budget of £1-1.5 billion to complete the project. The James Paget is one of seven hospitals requiring replacement due to having been constructed primarily using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), and will be prioritised in the programme. The Trust says ‘the vision’ for it ‘will help deliver state-of-the-art facilities to improve patient care and overall experience, help attract staff to careers in health and care, and provide high quality care that meets the needs of our future population’.
Jo Segasby, the Trust’s CEO, said: “We are delighted to share our vision for our new hospital, which gives our patients and communities a feel for what ‘Future Paget’ could look like. At this stage of planning, these are not our finished designs – and we need our patients, our staff at the hospital, and residents across Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, and Waveney, to give their feedback on the scale of what our new hospital looks like.”
Situated to the west of the current James Paget, the new hospital has a provisional size of 114,469 m2, and around 600 patient beds, and incorporates single rooms for all patients on wards. It will feature a new entrance from the west, with a new multi-storey car park, and additional parking across the site.
The Trust says it is ‘sharing its vision’ to gather the views of its staff, patients, the public, and stakeholders, ahead of submitting outline planning application to Great Yarmouth Borough Council later this year, which will provide an outline of the scale and position of the future hospital design, to be refined further through the planning process.
The James Paget also has secured the purchase of land next to its current hospital site that will form part of its future new hospital, supported by £9.8 m of funding from the Department of Health and Social Care, which approved a business case to purchase land to the west of the current estate in February. The hospital has worked closely with ‘partner’, Great Yarmouth Borough Council, to have the land assessed and valued, and the land purchase will allow it to plan for key enabling works in readiness for the new hospital’s construction, scheduled to start in 2027-28.
The photo shows a number of James Paget staff on land acquired for the new hospital.