Royal Preston Hospital Emergency Department Pic: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust South Ribble MP Paul Foster insists “nothing has chang
Revealed: The cost of Preston Guild Hall standing empty and the path to re-openingSouth Ribble MP Paul Foster insists “nothing has changed” regarding plans for a new Royal Preston Hospital – in spite of a review being ordered into the nationwide hospital-building programme of which it is a part.
But the context of the Chancellor’s statement – a “£22bn hole” in the nation’s finances – suggested that there could be instances in which some new hospitals were going to prove financially, as well as logistically, impossible to deliver.“The Chancellor has just said nothing had been funded – and it’s a statement of fact.
“ has changed is that the new government has been honest with the constituents of South Ribble and Preston in that this hospital had never been approved and it had never received its funding. The Conservative then health secretary Steve Barclay said in the Commons that all of the previously-announced new hospital projects would proceed – but he identified the Lancashire proposals as one of eight whose completion date would be pushed back beyond the end of this decade.
The LDRS understands that whilst preferred sites have been identified, they would be subject to public consultation – and the NHS remains open to the possibility of alternative sites coming forward. “In May 2023, Labour announced that they would review NHS capital funding ‘as a first step’ in government. They have stuck to that promise. I challenged Wes Streeting about it in the Commons on 23 May 2024– with no denial or equivocation.
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