National child health centre receives funding boost
Sheffield City Council is to assign £8.8m from its levelling up grant for regeneration in Attercliffe to the Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation, to help build the centre at the city’s Olympic Legacy Park.
The 43,000 sq ft building will be developed by Scarborough Group, with work set to commence next month.
The decision is set for approval at a meeting of the council’s finance and performance policy committee later today.
Described in the committee’s report as “the world’s most advanced and integrated healthcare system for children”, the children’s health centre aims to be “an on-site healthcare ecosystem that will bring together industry, academia, clinicians, patients, and families to create high value child healthcare products at pace.
“It will accelerate development of the Olympic Legacy Park, attracting national and international investment, creating high value jobs, developing new companies, and generating upwards of £2 billion of GVA.”
The report also noted that the centre will look to address regional health inequalities and that the funding will be passed to the Children’s Hospital Trust via a grant agreement.
A 250 year lease of the land to the NHS trust has already been agreed.
