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BREAKING NEWS: St Helier funding announced in Parliament

12:30pm Thursday 17th June 2010 in News By Julia Kennard

St Helier redevelopment will go ahead St Helier redevelopment will go ahead

A £219 million redevelopment of St Helier Hospital will go ahead after years of campaigning.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has just announced the news in Parliament.

His decision puts to rest months of speculation the plans would be thwarted after the Coalition Government said it would review all spending commitments made after January 1.

MP for Sutton and Cheam Paul Burstow, who is also who became a Health Minister, said: “These decisions by the new Government are good news for local people and our local health service.

“It ends the uncertainty surrounding the long overdue renewal of St Helier.

“We all know the Government has to make very tough decisions to sort out the public finances. These announcements show that there is a determination to protect the poor and the vulnerable.”

An Epsom and St Helier Hospital's spokesman said: "For us it is now full steam ahead with our plans.

"The sooner we can get the bulldozers on site the better.

Comments(2)

Michael Pantlin says...
5:13pm Thu 17 Jun 10

When they improve the hospital I hope they will not forget to reintroduce a proper second hot meal each day either for supper or an English cooked breakfast. I spend over 20% of my time as an inpatient and get fed up with sandwiches and tasteless pasta salad with a soup run. I hear they get three hot meals a day in the local prisons.

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tjames says...
5:59am Sat 19 Jun 10

put it in a better location and/or scrap parking charges--it is a pain to get to by public transport

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