For five years, different governments have promised the crumbling hospital would be rebuilt and plans are waiting to be put into action... yet there is STILL no firm commitment
Manchester had the second-highest mortality rate in England last year, meaning residents had a higher risk of dying than people living almost anywhere else in the country. Meanwhile, their hospital crumbles and the government still refuses to commit to the rebuild it has been promised for FIVE years.
READ MORE: Miracles are performed here every day by medics - it's time their surroundings matched their work Please sign our petition A place where people lose a decade of healthy life – but their hospital is crumbling Meanwhile, in north Manchester, one of the most deprived parts of Manchester borough, healthy life expectancy is below 60 years for both men and women. People can expect to live nine fewer years in good health than the English average.
Hospital bosses drew up designs for a ‘health campus’ that would transform the hospital into a centre of excellence – a fully-modernised district general hospital with a refurbished A&E, walk-in centre, labour wards, operating theatres, x-ray and outpatients facilities. It included an education hub to attract, train and develop the region’s best doctors, nurses, and health care workers.
Before and after the General Election, Health Secretary Wes Streeting committed to the multi-million pound North Manchester plans. But last month, Mr Streeting apologised and said the plans needed to be reconsidered as part of the government’s spending review on new hospitals. Just last week, health minister, and Gorton and Denton MP, Andrew Gwynne refused to say whether the hospital will get the full money it was promised.
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