A £28m hospital in Havant is set to transform health care for thousands of patients, a top NHS manager has said.
Inger Hebden, director of capital planning at Hampshire Primary Care Trust, said the new hospital will be on people's doorstep and will save them having to travel miles to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, Portsmouth.
Mrs Inger was talking at a
public meeting in Clanfield last night in which she unveiled plans for the Oak Park Community Hospital in Lavant Drive, Havant.
Mrs Inger said a formal planning application would be made to Havant Borough Council in August, and that the hospital should open by December 2010.
The two-storey state-of-the-art community hospital, which will be built on 3.7 acres of open space, is intended to treat 25,000 outpatients a year, offering X-rays, MRI scans and ultrasound scans.
People will still have to go to Queen Alexandra Hospital for emergency treatment and major surgery, but many consultants will be based at the new hospital for GP referrals.
Plans will be on view at Havant Leisure Centre, in Civic Centre Road, on Monday June 2 from 4pm to 9pm, then at Emsworth Community Centre, in Church Path, on Thursday, June 5 from 9.30am to 2pm.
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