Health services across Greater Manchester will be allocated £119.2m, following the announcement of £850m in new funding to upgrade outdated facilities and equipment.

The announcement comes as the Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirms a new £1.8 billion NHS cash injection today.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust will receive £72.3m to build a new adult mental health inpatient unit in Manchester

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will receive £30.6m to provide a new Emergency Care Campus Development at Stepping Hill Hospital incorporating an Urgent Treatment Centre, GP assessment unit and Planned Investigation Unit

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust will receive £16.3m to provide emergency care facilities at Tameside General Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne

Making the announcement Johnson says:

“Our brilliant doctors and nurses work day and night to look after their patients – and as Prime Minister I will make sure the NHS in Greater Manchester has the facilities and funding it needs.”
“So we’ll be putting £119.2m into its frontline services to support our hardworking staff, upgrade vital services and make sure our patients continue to get world-class care.
“This funding will help see a new adult mental health inpatient unit in Manchester, a new Emergency Care Campus Development at Stepping Hill and emergency care facilities at Tameside General Hospital – making a real difference to the lives of people here in Greater Manchester.”
The Labour Party however are saying that this is not new money

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said

“Boris Johnson has misled the public and our NHS staff. You cannot trust a word he says and his claims are unravelling.

“It is now clear this is not new money, but funds already earmarked for hospitals which ministers previously blocked.

“With 4.4 million patients waiting for operations and over 20,000 cancer patients waiting longer for treatment it is a disgrace that Johnson is trying to treat people like fools.

“After years of smash and grab cuts of £4 billion to NHS budgets it is now clearer than ever that, as Johnson’s top adviser says, the Tories don’t care about our NHS.”

 

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