Urgent repairs are needed for Stepping Hill Hospital, with buildings being condemned, corridors flooded, and light fittings falling out of ceilings. Sign our petition to tell the Department of Health to fund the critical repairs that are needed today, and a long-term plan for tomorrow. With an estimated £130 million backlog of repairs, we need urgent funding today, and a long-term development plan for a new, additional site in the centre of Stockport, located near the transport interchange.
Local Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart has said the extra funding for the NHS announced in the Budget must deliver the urgently needed repairs at Stepping Hill.
The desperate situation at Stepping Hill Hospital must be addressed in next week’s budget, say Stockport MPs Lisa Smart and Tom Morrison.
The latest NHS data has emphasized the crisis in Stepping Hill Hospital and across the NHS in the borough, with a total of £59.1million repairs required – of which £23.3 million are high risk or significant risk.
The danger of Stockport becoming an NHS “dental desert” has been laid bare by House of Commons Library research showing over 23,000 children across the borough didn’t see an NHS dentist last year.
Lisa Smart MP took the opportunity to raise uncertainty around funding for Stepping Hill at the Chancellor’s question time in Parliament yesterday
MPs Tom Morrison and Lisa Smart have written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting to ensure that a promise for urgent funding for Stepping Hill is not derailed by the Government’s funding black hole.