From the Conservative website:
“As part of the new Health Infrastructure Plan, 40 new hospitals will be built across England over the next decade, along with dozens of hospital upgrades and a fund to improve critical infrastructure."
The announcement that the government was pressing ahead with building 40 new hospitals was quickly debunked. In fact 34 projects involving 21 trusts have been put on the back burner for at least 6 years, but fobbed off with less then £5m each in “seed funding”.
Of the six ‘new hospitals’ that have been given the immediate go-ahead to build over the next 5 years, several turn out to be repairs, refurbishments or extensions – and none is ready to start work at once.
Read the full article here:
https://keepournhspublic.com/40-new-hospitals-fact-vs-fiction/