Questions are being asked about the future of the current Royal Liverpool Hospital, with the new hospital set to finally open later this year.
The old Royal building opened in 1978 and has served the city ever since - despite ongoing infrastructure problems.
In 2010, official government approval was given for a new state-of-the-art hospital to replace the increasingly dilapidated Royal, which then Health Secretary Andy Burnham described as a 'little piece of Eastern Europe.'
