It may have at times felt like this day would never come, but today patients and staff members were delighted to finally move into the new Royal Liverpool Hospital.
Today was the first day that patients were welcomed into the new hospital, which was originally supposed to open to the public in 2017. The build has been beset by delays and issues including the collapse of construction firm Carillion.
The Liverpool University Hospitals Trust is now moving staff, equipment and patients from the crumbling old hospital building into the new, state-of-the-art site.
