HEALTH chiefs are preparing to submit plans for a £150 million new hospital which would treat thousands of Winchester’s sickest patients.

Proposals for a critical treatment centre between Winchester and Basingstoke, centralising emergency and acute treatment, are set to be filed on Friday.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council will decide whether the proposals meet planning rules ahead of formal public consultation.

Most hospital services at Winchester, Basingstoke and Andover hospitals will stay put under the plans, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said.

The proposed complex, on land north of the M3’s junction 7, would also offer 24-hour consultant care and include an £18.5 million cancer treatment unit to centralise chemotherapy.

Feedback from a recent public exhibition, attended by around 450 people, will be available to view on the council website when the planning application is registered.

A formal consultation will be launched if NHS England agrees with a strategy being drawn up by West and North Hampshire clinical commissioning groups, GP-led bodies which control healthcare and spending in areas including Winchester.

Mary Edwards, the trust’s chief executive, said: “We were delighted so many people viewed the information either at the events, on our website or the displays in our hospitals in Andover, Basingstoke and Winchester. “The feedback from the questionnaire, from the many one-to-one conversations we’ve had as well as the letters of support we have received has all helped us get a good idea of people’s views.”

A joint spokesman for the CCGs and hospitals trust added that “no significant changes will be made without scrutiny and formal consultation and all stakeholders will be kept informed.”