Bid to save plans for single-site hospital at Overdale defeated in the States

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A BID to get the States Assembly to commit to the single-site Overdale scheme has been defeated.

Deputy Lyndon Farnham lodged a proposition last month aiming to prevent the government abandoning the approved Overdale plans until it had ‘certainty’ that the multi-site scheme – recommended by the Our Hospital Project review – was a better option both clinically and financially.

But yesterday States Members voted this down by 32 to 15.

The review recommended scrapping the proposed single-site facility in favour of a hybrid model that would include the existing Gloucester Street site, adjacent land at Kensington Place and Overdale.

Deputy Farnham’s proposition would have required the Council of Ministers to present a report to the States by 20 March, providing ‘direct like-for-like’ comparisons between the multi-site option and the Overdale proposals – including running costs.

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