Hospitals: South Yorkshire
(asked on 5th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of whether any hospitals in South Yorkshire contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
The National Health Service has been surveying sites and undertaking reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) mitigation work since 2019 and has issued guidance for trusts nationally on how to establish the presence of RAAC in their estate. There is ongoing engagement with trusts on a national and regional level to ensure RAAC is identified across the NHS estate.
The Department has published a full list of hospitals with confirmed RAAC on GOV.UK, which is available at the following link:
As of 17 October, there is one hospital in South Yorkshire with confirmed RAAC, Barnsley Hospital. The trust has joined the national RAAC programme.
Where structural surveys identify RAAC in their estate, trusts are inducted into the national programme. Each site will be different, and just because RAAC is present, it does not necessarily mean there is a high risk.