Chancellor expected to make announcement on new hospital funding this week
Health / Mon 20th Jan 2025 at 07:59am
THE BBC understands the government will make an announcement on hospital funding in England this week.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in July that a review would be carried out on hospital, road and rail projects as part of an attempt to plug a £22bn hole in public finances.
A new hospital for Harlow was a central part of MP Chris Vince’s election campaign.
Back in June he said: “The rebuild of Princess Alexandra is long overdue. If I’m elected as MP for Harlow I will campaign day and night to get a new Princess Alexandra Hospital built, working with a Labour government to get this done as soon as possible.
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David Forman
2025-01-20 08:45:54
I expect the RAAC affected hospitals will get priority in a first stage building programme.
David Forman
2025-01-20 08:55:18
A Guardian newspaper article published last Friday has a good quote from Siva Anandaciva, the director of policy at the King’s Fund health thinktank: “While we need to wait for the full details of the review … pausing or delaying plans to rebuild hospitals is likely to be a false economy [as] many hospitals are already spending significant amounts of taxpayers’ funding trying to maintain sub-standard buildings. “It is absolutely clear that the knackered condition of some NHS buildings and equipment in both hospital and out-of-hospital settings is harming patients and staff and hampering attempts to improve NHS productivity.” See Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/17/half-new-hospitals-promised-boris-johnson-not-be-built-for-decades
Jennifer Steadman
2025-01-20 13:23:20
@David Forman, speaking to an exec from PAH sometime ago about the new hospital build & they intimated how the previous budget might be allocated. There are hospitals in a worse state than PAH with ward ceilings being held up by acro props etc so they would get the first bite of the budget, then the next worse hospital until it came to the PAH build budget allocation portion. We might qualify for funds to build a new porta cabin ward if we are lucky.
Charlie
2025-01-20 18:45:10
Good news is that it has just been announced that Harlow will get the funding for a new hospital. Bad news is that it is not expected to start work on it until 2032-2034. Perhaps now that has been confirmed, the powers that be will hold an urgent meeting to stop any development on the new Hggt going ahead. As the new hospital won't be likely to be up and running until 2037, I dread to think what impact this will have on the existing Princes Alexandra Hospital, which cannot cope as it is without the addition of more homes and more people moving into the area. Sheer and utter madness.
David
2025-01-21 18:25:22
Just been told today I will have to wait 12 months for a routine hearing test.
Trevor Williams
2025-02-20 19:15:10
A glance at the Government Hospital Programme schedule prove the dates will slip further because the construction industry doesn't have the necessary resources to meet the programme. Neither is the plan fully funded because the construction contracts for the larger projects like Hsrlow's will not be let on a fixed price basis.
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