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When the rebuild of St Mary’s was announced in 2020, Felicity Buchan was fast to praise Matt Hancock.
Felicity Buchan MP on Twitter: "Delighted that three West London hospitals: St Mary’s, Paddington, Charing Cross and Hammersmith will be part of the Conservative Govt’s 40 hospitals to be rebuilt. A £3.7 billion investment. These are all hospitals used by Kensington residents. Well done @MattHancock" https://twitter.com/FelicityBu
For secondary care, North Kensington residents are primarily served by St Mary’s while South Kensington and Chelsea residents in the main go to Chelsea and Westminster. St Mary’s was number 37 on the list of 40 hospital building programme much touted by the government. https://www.gov.uk/government/
The government has now ditched its pledge to rebuild St Mary’s Hospital by 2030.
* Evening Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/new
* The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/so
This matter is to the detriment of many of Felicity Buchan’s constituents. She needs to address it.
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"Keeping the old Dame on Her Toes"
The Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, which Felicity Buchan stood on, included a promise to build ’40 new hospitals by 2030′. Some of the hospitals listed in the building programme announced in October 2020 to be completed by 2030, such as St Mary’s hospital, have now been demoted to a “rolling programme” of building work which will be started but not finished by the end of the decade.
ReplyDeleteThe chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust, Professor Tim Orchard, said: “If we waited until 2030 to start building works at St Mary’s, it would become impossible to continue to patch up our oldest facilities, many of which house key clinical services. As the provider of London’s busiest major trauma centre and host of the NHS’s largest biomedical research centre, that would be hugely damaging for the health and healthcare of hundreds of thousands of people.” https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/news/trust-response-to-new-hospital-programme-announcement
New Petition · Save Imperial College NHS Trust Hospitals (Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's) ! · Change.org https://www.change.org/p/save-imperial-college-nhs-trust-hospitals-charing-cross-hammersmith-st-mary-s
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DeleteFelicity says: “For 75 years, the NHS has been a source of pride in Kensington" https://www.felicitybuchan.com/news/felicity-buchan-seeks-local-health-and-care-heroes-nhs-parliamentary-awards but St Mary’s is the hospital that serves the North of Kensington.
DeleteWhy are you surprised, 20:54? Felicity Buchan praised Matt Hancock, backed Liz Truss https://www.felicitybuchan.com/news/felicity-buchan-mp-backs-liz-leader and she would be fighting tooth and nail for St Mary's hospital if she thought she had any chance of keeping her seat after the next election.
DeleteAgree. Not fighting for Kensington’s resident interests is as close to a political suicide note as it gets
DeleteThe ongoing decline of St Mary’s hospital will greatly INCREASE HEALTH INEQUALITIES across the Royal Borough. The Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2023 (under consultation until 25 June) has the stated aim TO REDUCE HEALTH INEQUALITIES https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/bi-borough-health-and-wellbeing-strategy-2023/ No mention of the ‘hugely damaging’ impact of the delay in building works at St Mary’s hospital, yet.
ReplyDeleteThe disparity in life expectancy between residents in different parts of Kensington and Chelsea is startling, reaching 15 years for women and 17 years for men, in wards less than 2 miles apart.
DeleteNever trust a Tory promise
ReplyDeleteNever trust a Labour promise nor Lib Dem. Get real 22:10
Delete"Medical staff at our local St Mary’s @ImperialNHS can’t provide adequate care when the facilities are crumbling around them. It’s just another reason our NHS staff are leaving these shores in droves. Tell the Government to have a rethink." Twitter
Deletehttps://twitter.com/JodieTerry/status/1664567571213959168
Karen Buck MP on Twitter: "St Mary’s Paddington was one of the pledged 40 hospitals. Responding to my question in Parliament the Minister confirmed that, despite the largest maintenance backlog in the country, St Mary’s hospital is now *not* included in the 2030 commitment- a key promise broken" https://twitter.com/KarenPBuckMP/status/1661717240960495618
DeleteUnder 5 different PM's in 13 years the Tories have made promise after promise and delivered next to nothing. Each new leader has promised us a new beginning & asked us to overlook that their party had been in office for so long. Our hospitals, our sewers , our schools and our Police have all gone into apparently irrevocable decline . Time for them to be gone & give the other lot a chance
DeleteIf Felicity Buchanan doesn’t represent her constituents on Imperial College NHS Trust others will step into the vacuum. Even the Lib Dems know the rebuild of St Mary’s hospital should not be pushed into the long grass. https://www.westminsterandcityoflondonlibdems.org.uk/fileadmin/groups/133/Documents/St_Mary_s_Hospital.pdf
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Pigs will fly
ReplyDeleteThe link shows pigs have already flown!
ReplyDeleteIt is more than just St Mary’s. Here is Andy Slaughter MP on Twitter: What is happening to Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals!? A thread https://t.co/l6aBEn7hhG
ReplyDeleteThe New Hospital Programme and Imperial College Healthcare was debated in Parliament on 13 June 23. Here is Hansard https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-06-13/debates/A9BF070B-2599-4EF2-B3F3-E6130C9D4C7D/NewHospitalProgrammeAndImperialCollegeHealthcareNHSTrust
DeleteFelicity Buchan does not contribute.
That reminds me …. Where’s (the) Wally?
DeleteAndy Slaughter MP, doing the basics to represent his constituents, asked Rishi Sunak a question about St Mary’s hospital and Imperial College Healthcare at Prime Minister’s Questions today (21 June 2023).
DeleteFelicity Buchan MP is an utter disgrace for not representing the constituents of Kensington and Chelsea on this matter.