Healthcare boost for the South West and Plymouth

Willmott Dixon has started construction on a £140 million state-of-the-art Emergency Care Building at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

The four-storey facility, procured under P23 with Mace, will transform urgent and emergency care provision for the South West peninsula, creating modern, purpose-built spaces to replace the hospital’s current 50-year-old Emergency Department.

The project represents a significant milestone for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, which operates one of the busiest emergency departments in the region. Due to open in 2029, the new building will provide nearly twice the capacity of the existing facility.

Rob Woolcock, Director at Willmott Dixon, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be delivering this important new facility in partnership with University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. This represents not just the beginning of a building, but the next step in enhancing the care and wellbeing of thousands of patients every year.”

Stuart Windsor, Programme Director for Our Future Hospital, said: “It has been a long journey to get to today, but we will now finally see the new Emergency Care Building start to rise from the ground. This important building will provide the people of Plymouth and the wider Devon and Cornwall peninsula a facility that they can be proud of, and will finally give our clinicians the space to care.”