Two hospitals held up by Carillion collapse are delayed further
(The Guardian Business News)

Royal Liverpool and Midland Metropolitan are hundreds of millions of pounds over budgetThe completion of two new hospitals whose construction was brought to a halt by the collapse of the government contractor Carillion has been delayed by two more years and will run hundreds of millions of pounds over budget, according to Whitehall´s spending watchdog.The 646-bed Royal Liverpool, originally scheduled to open in 2017, is now forecast to be completed in the autumn of 2022 and cost more than £1bn to build and run compared with an original estimate of £746m, according to the National Audit Office. Continue reading...