From 40 hospitals to six: how the Tories' NHS numbers don't add up

[Northerner]

An extra £3bn to rebuild crumbling hospitals announced by Matt Hancock on the first of the Tory party conference is welcome, but not nearly enough given the state of NHS infrastructure, experts have said.

Prime minister Boris Johnson declared that 40 new hospitals would be built, but almost all the money earmarked will go to just six NHS trusts, which each have a major hospital badly in need of rebuilding and have had plans waiting for approval. A further 21 trusts will get a small amount of seed-funding to “kick-start” their plans for the end of the next decade.

Whipps Cross hospital, Epsom and St Helier trust, West Hertfordshire trust, Princess Alexandra Hospital trust, University Hospitals of Leicester trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust will share £2.7bn from the Treasury, a Conservative party statement said as the party conference opened in Manchester.

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[mikeyB]

None of BoJo's spending announcements are new money. It's all spin. That's why he doesn't bother to say where the money is coming from - it's already committed. And not a single police force in England has seen hide nor hair of any indication how much money they can commit to recruitment.