A sweeping digital overhaul, multimillion-dollar equipment upgrades and a major off-site expansion are now under way at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), as administrators push to modernise Barbados’ primary public general hospital while addressing persistent service challenges.

Appearing on the QEH Pulse radio programme, Chief Executive Officer Neil Clark emphasised that the hospital’s 2025-2028 strategy was never intended to be a passive document. Following a recent public town hall session, hospital leadership returned to the airwaves to report on year-one successes and layout immediate priorities for the financial year that began in April.

​”Nobody wants to write a strategy that sits on the shelf, and that was never our intention,” Clark said. “We spent a good year working on year-one of that strategy, and it was right that we went back to the public and said, here’s the progress that we’re making.”