A well being board was warned about air flow points years earlier than they delayed the opening of latest hospital buildings, an NHS overview has revealed.

But a overview reveals “multiple concerns” in regards to the subject have been raised in 2020 and “do not appear to have been addressed”.

NHS Grampian stated it was addressing the factors raised by the overview.

The Baird Family Hospital and Anchor Centre have been each meant to open in 2020 however a collection of delays imply the general mission price is now £261m – £98m greater than the unique estimate.

A overview of the Anchor Centre mission, which can present companies for haematology and oncology sufferers, was accomplished by NHS Scotland in March as a part of work to make sure an infection prevention and management are a key consideration in constructing new hospitals throughout the nation.

The overview discovered the mission had three “significant” points to handle, together with air flow and drainage, and 15 extra points categorised as “major”.

The report, launched to BBC Scotland below freedom of data legal guidelines, reveals {that a} earlier NHS overview produced in September, 2020 “identified multiple concerns in relation to the development of the ventilation strategy that, from the evidence presented, do not appear to have been addressed”.

The enter of NHS Grampian’s Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) group is assessed by the NHS Scotland report.

The well being board stated its IPC group has needed to prioritise its work responding to the Covid pandemic lately and had “no capacity to support this project”.

But the group has now raised plenty of considerations about air flow and water companies which have added to the mission’s delays.

The NHS Scotland report says there may be “no evidence of IPC input to, review of or sign off of any main project risks or derogations for the project to date”, and it additionally suggests there may be “no evidence of any regular site inspections” by the IPC group throughout development.

The report additionally provides that “of significant concern” is an absence of assurance demonstrating stakeholder interplay and sign-off of developed methods, significantly with respect to the IPC considerations.

Concerns about contractors’ lack of expertise on healthcare constructing initiatives was additionally raised, as have been plenty of governance points.

The Anchor centre is predicted to open in October and the Baird Family Hospital, which can present maternity and breast screening companies, in addition to a neonatal unit and working theatre, is supposed to open in September subsequent yr.

The buildings can be positioned subsequent to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

The Covid pandemic, a piece fatality on web site and a contractor going into liquidation have all additionally added to the mission’s total delays.

An NHS Grampian spokesman stated the board “welcomed the robust scrutiny” within the NHS Scotland report and stated it was “actively working” with them to enhance the areas highlighted.

He added: “Many of the points raised are due to changes in guidance and process, that came following issues with the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.

“In nearly all of circumstances, our groups have been already conscious of and actively working to handle the problems and alternatives raised.

“Our IPC team is now embedded within the project board delivering these complex clinical buildings, so that when the Anchor Centre and Baird Family Hospital open their doors, they will provide the best possible levels of care for patients. “