Carillion's Midland Met Hospital woe drags on

By Dave Rogers2018-05-02T12:10:00

Scheme now not set to be finished until 2022

The chief executive of the NHS Trust in charge of building the hospital in the West Midlands Carillion was constructing when it went bust has admitted it is now unlikely to be ready until 2022.

Toby Lewis had previously said the £350m hospital at Smethwick had been given a new opening date of 2020 following Carillion’s implosion in January.

But in a report to board members, Lewis said: “We continue to press for an early restart and therefore the most rapid route to a single acute hospital, which in our view could be achieved by 2020.

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