{"id":93693,"date":"2018-07-06T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=28c9e7cb7b9580b3377333ad4fc2ecd5"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:27:42","slug":"news-story-dhsc-buys-land-to-support-development-of-life-sciences-facility-in-east-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93693","title":{"rendered":"News story: DHSC buys land to support development of life sciences facility in east London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Department of Health and Social Care is buying the land in east London for \u00a377 million.<\/p>\n<p>Barts Health NHS Trust had previously announced the plans to develop the under-used land, which includes the former outpatients department and dental hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted benefits of the planned development include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>new treatments being available to patients faster<\/li>\n<li>the creation of thousands of jobs<\/li>\n<li>attracting an estimated \u00a311 billion of outside investment to the borough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The trust is also looking to confirm plans for 168 homes for NHS staff through a planning consent agreement with a neighbouring development.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister James O\u2019Shaughnessy said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This innovative project has unlocked surplus NHS land and allows us to unleash a major life sciences investment into east London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The project won\u2019t just allow researchers and entrepreneurs to benefit. It will help NHS patients access new diagnostics and treatments more quickly and 168 homes for NHS staff will also be provided.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department is now seeking planning permission to develop the life sciences research facility site and housing for local NHS staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}