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Epsom MP calls for more funding to tackle hospital trust backlog
A Surrey MP is calling for extra funding to tackle a backlog of appointments at a local NHS Maguire, the Liberal Democrat MP for Epsom and Ewell, told the House of Commons she was grateful for £12m of extra funding given to Epsom and St Helier University she added: "This is quite frankly a drop in the ocean in comparison to the scale of need."Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he understood the challenges the trust faced, but added that reversing years of underfunding would take time.
In January, Dr Beccy Suckling, associate medical director at the trust, said St Helier Hospital in Carshalton had a series of problems including windows that could not close said more than 600 operations had to be cancelled in 2024 because of ventilation issues in its Suckling believed the age of the building - which was completed in 1942 - was the root cause of the May, St Helier Hospital's former estates manager said the site's crumbling infrastructure was "among the worst" in the NHS.
