Pledge to re-build Royal National Orthapaedic Hospital

CONSERVATIVES PLEDGE TO REBUILD ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHAPAEDIC HOSPITAL



Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary for Health, and Bob Blackman, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Harrow East, visited the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore on Wednesday to view the buildings and discuss the redevelopment project with the Chief Executive and the Medical Director.

Bob Blackman has pledged to press a newly elected Conservative Government to provide the funding for the rebuilding of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

Over the last 13 years there has been constant prevarication by the Labour Government over this key facility.  The Conservatives have expressed support and understanding for the need for a new hospital building.

The future of the project has been thrown into doubt as the Government accepted the business case but appeared ready to pull the plug on the scheme.

The Labour Government’s NHS Operating Framework for 2010-11 published by the Department of Health on 16 December 2009 implies that NHS capital spending will be cut by half if Labour is re-elected. This is the budget used for funding hospital building projects.  In contrast, the Conservatives are pledged to protect NHS capital spending, as part of our pledge to increase NHS spending in real terms every year.

Andrew Lansley commented, “I was pleased to visit Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) once again this week and to hear about their planned redevelopment project. Whilst doctors and nurses at RNOH do an excellent job delivering specialist care, they have to so in outdated buildings, which in some cases are no longer fit for purpose.”

"The hospital is one of the world’s leading centres of orthopaedics and the business case for rebuilding the RNOH is robust.”

"We give our full support to the project and are determined that it should go ahead. This should happen in the fastest available time scale, given the cost and risk of maintaining services in the woefully inadequate accommodation, with millions spent each year on repair and maintenance work.”

“We can back the project because we are committed to protecting NHS spending. Unlike Labour, who have not committed to protect areas of the health budget such as public health and capital investment. This guarantee comes with a responsibility on the part of the NHS to deliver greater efficiency savings and reduce administrative costs by a third. Both measures are required in order for the NHS to meet the demands of an ageing population, new medicines and technologies and increasing expectations”.

Bob Blackman commented, “The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital does a brilliant job in dreadful facilities. The hospital desperately needs to be rebuilt. The Labour Government constantly prevaricates about providing the funding for this project; clearly they do not regard it as a priority. Labour will slash the capital funding for new hospital rebuilding if re-elected. If I am elected, I will press the newly elected Conservative Government for funding to rebuild this hospital so that the excellent work carried out can continue in modern facilities.”


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