Cost of upkeep of country's 'crumbling' hospitals topped £1billion last year, ... trends now
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The cost of maintenance work on England’s ‘crumbling’ hospitals topped £1billion last year.
The money was spent on maintaining the hospitals estate in 2021/22, according to the NHS’s annual Estates Returns Information Collection.
This was up from £987million in the previous year and from £890million in 2017/18.
Opposition parties criticised the Government for overseeing a ‘crumbling’ NHS estate.
But a Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: ‘We have invested record sums to upgrade NHS buildings and facilities, so that trusts can continue to provide the best possible quality of care.’
The cost of maintenance work on England’s ‘crumbling’ hospitals topped £1billion last year
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, who wrote to ministers requesting the costs, said: ‘Rishi Sunak appears to have ditched the 40 new hospitals pledge, adding one more failure to the Conservatives’ record of overpromising and underdelivering.
‘The Conservatives
