A Manchester health minister has refused to say whether North Manchester General Hospital will get the full money it was promised for its desperately-needed rebuild plans.
However, the health minister said Stepping Hill Hospital – another crumbling NHS estate – will NOT miss out on funding just because the Labour cabinet is scrambling to find money the ‘40 new hospitals’ promised by previous Conservative governments.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, this week, took to the radio to say North Manchester General Hospital has some of the oldest wards in the NHS.
But Department of Health and Social Care minister Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton, would not say whether the Victorian-era hospital would receive the millions it was promised for crucial refurbishments by Boris Johnson in 2019.
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