Over £150 million worth of repairs needed as Epsom & Ewell MP
Helen Maguire calls for urgent investment at the Budget for Epsom & St Helier Hospital
Latest NHS data reveals that Epsom and St. Helier University hospitals need more than £150 million in repairs. MP Helen Maguire calls for urgent investment in crumbling hospitals in the upcoming Budget.
‘High Risk’ repairs at the hospitals came to a staggering total of nearly £70 million. These repairs are defined as ‘when a failure to address repairs urgently could lead to serious injury and major disruption to services. The two hospitals have been dealing with crumbling facilities for years on sites that are over developed and in desperate need of upgrades. Ceilings at St. Helier Hospital are falling in and buildings are condemned, while emergency teams are split between the two sites-a matter the long-promised emergency care hospital in Sutton is meant to relieve.
Ahead of the Autumn Budget in the coming weeks, Epsom & Ewell MP Maguire has called for urgent investment in the area’s hospitals to clear the backlog of repairs and ensure that patients are treated in safe environments. Liberal Democrat MP for Epsom and Ewell, Helen Maguire, said: “It is scandalous that people in Epsom, Ewell, Ashtead, and Leatherhead are being treated in hospitals that need millions of pounds in repairs. When someone goes to the hospital, they should expect to be treated in a building that is safe, this is surely the bare minimum. We need to do far better.”
“It is now down to this Government to rescue our NHS, which is why, at the Budget, the Chancellor must urgently use any changes to the borrowing rules to invest in hospitals here in Epsom and Ewell. Our hospitals and our people require these necessities met.”
Well one must ask questions as to why it was left like this. The connecting of the two areas at the back of the hospital between the Langley wing and main area (s) was un called for.
The new building of accommodation and car parking which is eventually going to generate vast profit, at the rear of the hospital is clearly uppermost in the minds of the management rather than the repairs desperately needed, clawing in money for the private sector.
The outgoing Ekeles should have been more concerned with the repairs than he was, and not leave his position to further his career leaving our hospitals in such a sorry state that it is now in.
Is this just an excuse to close Epsom Hospital we believe it is