Thursday 21 July 2016

NHS buildings

I love the “Call Of Cthulhu” and Derren Brown's the “Seance”.  In one respect, they have a lot in common; they both deal with psychological horrors that twist the mind and make you question everything that you believe. The thing is, like all good horror, the setting is the most important part. The thing is, good horror plays to our psychological quirks and the tthings that we are all scared of (The dark, fire, things that creep in the night). One of the biggest things that scares me is a quiet hospital. They are like school.  They are quite scary places when there is no one around.

Why even think about this with you guys here?  Let's have a little look at how many empty hospitals there are in Wales.  There must be hospital that  is not being used in Wales…  So I asked all of the Welsh health boards the same thing:

1) How many buildings your trust owns
2) How many buildings your trust rents
3) How many buildings your trust own but have left empty
4) If the answer to question 3 is anything above 0, please can you tell me how long you have left them empty for

So here are the results:

Name
Owns
Rents
Empty
Since
55
10 (4 of which are for a pittance)
2
1 for 6 years
1 for 4 years
392100
25
9
0
0
91
44
22
11 - redevelopment
3 - since 2013
5 - 2015

51
23 (In total)
1
2010
40
20
1
04/07/16

Hold my hands up, this is a stupid way to look at this matter. Realistically, I have asked about the property that each authority has.  I have shown that the authority has some building which are left unoccupied.  Realistically, each authority could been looking at the amount of property that they own (and don't) and look at how much they spend on these maintenance. Isnt it fun that you can find this stuff out, kids!

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