Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has secured £42 million to rebuild the emergency department at Queen’s Hospital in Romford. The existing unit was designed for about 325 patients a day and regularly treats more than twice that number. The rebuild is funded; a construction start and opening date have not been announced.[1]
The project is at the funded, preconstruction stage. The pin uses the CQC location for Queen’s Hospital and represents the hospital site, not a surveyed footprint of the proposed works.
18 October 2026
Trust confirms £42 million of funding secured for the emergency-department rebuild.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has secured £42 million to rebuild the emergency department at Queen’s Hospital in Romford. Plans include dedicated waiting areas, improved children’s emergency facilities and space for 195 patients within the redesigned department. The funding enables the project to proceed; construction and opening dates have not been announced.
The government has announced almost £140 million in funding for 14 urgent and emergency care projects across England. The plans include new treatment facilities, improvements to existing emergency departments and 40 additional double-crewed ambulances for the East Midlands. Among the allocations are £42.1 million to rebuild the emergency department at Queen's Hospital in Romford, £12.9 million for a same-day emergency care facility at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre and £10 million for a new urgent treatment centre at the James Paget Hospital in Norfolk. The digital projects include £18.4 million over three years for check-in and triage systems across London's emergency departments, and £7.7 million over four years for a coordination centre at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge to improve the management of beds, admissions and discharges. The systems are funded proposals, not confirmed deployments.