'We spent £105 MILLION after being promised change, now we could be left surrounded by crumbling Victorian bricks'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester is now home to a state-of-the art mental health facility – but there are fears that the £105.9m inpatient unit could become an ‘island’, surrounded by crumbling 19th century buildings which make up the rest of the hospital site.
North View is a new mental health unit sitting in the North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) grounds in Crumpsall. But the opening of North View last month has been met with frustrations from senior NHS sources.
Hospital bosses built a state-of-the art facility to fit with the brand new hospital they were long promised – the money never came.
Now, experts fear that the £105m facility will be marooned as an ‘island’ of modernity. The land occupied by the old mental health facilities is desperately needed to expand the rest of the decrepit Victorian hospital, say sources close to the project.
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