Royal Liverpool boss 'angry' at wrong Carillion information

摘要

Escalating costs from remedial work led to the collapse of any PFI deal for the Royal Liverpool Hospital project, the NHS trust's boss has revealed. Speaking to Construction News after sealing a deal with the government to fund the rest of the project, chief executive Aiden Kehoe revealed that an agreement with lenders became untenable after the full extent of remedial work was learned. He said the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust had hoped to strike a deal with the scheme's backers as late as July this year. But emergence of further details on the work required for the hospital's cracked concrete beams, coupled with the discovery of non-compliant cladding, represented an untenable cost increase for investors.