BORIS Johnson’s flagship hospital building programme and three levelling up funds are mired in delays and unlikely to deliver on time, two highly critical reports by parliamentary watchdogs have found reports The Guardian. In a sobering verdict on the former prime minister’s promise to build 40 hospitals by 2030, the public accounts committee said it had “no confidence” that even the new target of 32 would be delivered by that date. The cross-party committee of MPs said “very little has happened from the perspective of patients” since the programme was announced and called on the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to urgently examine how new hospital building programmes would bring “tangible results for patients”. It also warned there was a risk that future hospitals were being designed to be too small. Click below for the full story.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2023 11:11 UTC