Hospital bosses in Dudley will spend more than £10.5million on new medical equipment to help improve patient care over the next three years.

Some of the cash will be used to replace old and worn out instruments across the departments.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Russells Hall and the Guest hospitals in Dudley and the Corbett in Stourbridge will invest £2.5m in 2011/12 and the same amount in 2012/13 and 2013/14.

Staff are being asked for their views on what new equipment is needed.

A further £2.2m will be spent on new imaging equipment used to carry out scans of the body during the current financial year. A further £502,000 will be paid out in 2012/13 and £365,000 in 2013/14. The proposals are outlined in the trust’s forward plan, which it has submitted to independent regulator Monitor.

The report says: “The trust needs to ensure that it has imaging equipment that incorporates the latest technology. Over the next three years, 10 pieces of imaging equipment will be replaced.”

Earlier this year, the hospital trust ordered a new MRI scanner.