Situation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is 'far from ideal' for patients and staff, trust admits.
An ageing hospital roof is now being held up from within by more than 2,400 wooden and steel posts.counted in AprilInterim chief executive, Alice Webster, said the situation made for a "far from ideal" environment for staff and patients.The Queen Elizabeth Hospital opened in 1980, one of seven hospitals built using a material called reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete .
The material has serious weaknesses and is deteriorating, with uncertainty over its structural integrity leading to more than £100m being spent this financial year on safety measures across the affected sites.Ms Webster told the BBC: "We clearly know that the organisation is in an environment that is far from ideal with 2,482 props.
"That's a lot of equipment for people to be working around, so anything that we can do to get ourselves on that new hospital list, we will do. "We have some absolutely amazing teams who work around it and we have learnt to live with them in many ways. "Obviously we have to have teams going around looking at the building constantly and we know it does on occasion mean we have to move services while we fail-safe and make the area as it needs to be.
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