The Scottish Government recently announced that funding for all NHS capital projects was to be paused and we were advised to stop any project development spend and instead funds available were to be focused on the maintenance of the estate and essential equipment and digital replacement.
We have been assessing the implications that this had for the Dunoon GP Relocation Project and we have had further discussions with the Scottish Government as to the £2.9 million capital funding that they were planning to provide for the project.
It has now been confirmed that this funding will no longer be made available and we are therefore unable at this time to move the project forward and the work will now be paused for the foreseeable future.
We are obviously very disappointed by this decision and we know that the local community and our health and social care colleagues in the locality will also be disappointed especially as so many of them have put in a considerable amount of time and effort into this project.
We will be arranging a public engagement event to provide more information to the local community, our staff and key stakeholders and further details of this event will be widely publicised nearer the time.