 In 1928 the City Hospital for infectious diseases moved from its original location on Hedon Road to newly erected buildings on the Hull Sanatorium site.A major expansion of the hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2005.The Queen's Centre for Oncology and Haematology, which was designed by HLM Architects and built by Shepherd Building Group at a cost of £65 million, was completed in August 2008 and was officially opened by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2009.