Funding wrangle holding up Balfour Beatty's Midland Met deal

midland met april 2019

Hospital trust hoping to ink contract with firm before Christmas

The NHS trust in charge of completing the Midlands hospital left half-built following Carillion's collapse has said problems finalising costs and design issues are holding up plans to finish it.

The Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS trust named Balfour Beatty as its preferred bidder to take over the Midland Met work earlier this year – more than a year after Carillion went bust – but is yet to reach financial close.

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