02-06-2025
Cash boost for vital repairs at hospitals in Devon and Cornwall
Hospitals in Devon and Cornwall have been given more than £22m for vital repairs, the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed. It comes as part of the £750m announced for the NHS in England in the autumn hospitals have been given more than £15m for improvements, while Cornish hospitals will benefit from more than £ Secretary Wes Streeting said the government was "on a mission" to rebuild the NHS through investment and modernisation.
Funding breakdown
Among the hospitals receiving funding were three of the largest in both counties - the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (RD&E) in Exeter, Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, and the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Hospital has been given £1,815,000 for improvements to ventilation equipment in the neonatal Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention, during a visit to Derriford Hospital, said the new system would improve environmental conditions for babies receiving specialist in Devon, RD&E and North Devon District Hospital, managed by the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, have been jointly allocated £5,412,000 for improvements to ventilation systems, and fire safety healthcare units, managed by the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, have been given £300,000 for improvements to energy Cornwall, the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro has been given £4,379,000 for improvements to energy, electrical, and water Department for Health and Social Care also announced £3.9m for Bodmin Hospital, to improve fire safety.
'Crumbling'
The Department of Health and Social Care said fixing the "backlog of maintenance" at NHS hospitals would help to prevent said services were disrupted more than 4,000 times across England in 2023 and 2024 due to issues with poor quality Streeting said: "A decade and a half of underinvestment left hospitals crumbling, with burst pipes flooding emergency departments, faulty electrical systems shutting down operating theatres, and mothers giving birth in outdated facilities that lack basic dignity."He said patients and staff deserved to be in buildings which were "safe, comfortable, and fit for purpose."
