Northwick Park Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what further steps he will take to tackle the high significant risk maintenance backlog at Northwick Park hospital; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 20th January 2020

Individual National Health Service organisations are responsible for maintaining their estates. NHS provider organisations invest in excess of £3 billion of capital annually. Providers should ensure capital investments are consistent with their clinical strategies and the delivery of safe, productive services

We recognise the challenge for providers in maintaining their existing estates and investing in new facilities. To support this, the Government announced £3.9 billion of additional capital funding in the 2017 Spring and Autumn Budgets and a further £2.1 billion boost of funding in 2019 - £1 billion for existing upgrade programmes to proceed and to tackle the most urgent infrastructure projects, £850 million for 20 hospital upgrades and £200 million for new MRI and CT scanners for 78 trusts.

In September, the Government launched a new Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP), which will deliver a long-term, strategic investment in the future of the NHS, including a new hospital building programme – through which the Government plans to build 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years. Critical Infrastructure Risk was a key criterion when considering suitable schemes for the first phase of HIP.

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