Labour demands probe into Boris Johnson’s delayed ’40 new hospitals’ pledge

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  1. Wes Streeting, worried about [reports in the Sunday Times](https://archive.ph/MVxjp):

    > “NHS trusts are still waiting to be allocated funds to begin construction two and a half years on from the general election.

    > “This is despite many of these planned building works only being alterations or refurbishments, not in fact ‘new hospitals’.

    > “I am concerned that unnecessary delays will result in significant waste of taxpayers’ money, given the increase in prices for construction materials in the past year.”

    > [Streeting demanded the NAO] “now launch an investigation into this programme, to examine what is causing the delays in delivery and the extent to which taxpayers’ money is being wasted”.

    A pre-emptive strike on [Johnson’s rumoured NHS distraction](https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-to-make-nhs-announcement-in-bid-to-move-on-from-partygate-as-bruising-poll-predicts-by-election-thrashing-12627983), perhaps.

    Famously, “40 hospitals” was one of the lies Johnson [was on video coaching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfeaBsSoBJw) his cabinet through, like some supply teacher at a nursery school for conmen.

  2. Why not just skip all these individual scandals and probes and just start one big investigation into why he’s overall such a fat useless lying cunt?

  3. Even if these were ‘new’ hospitals we can’t even staff the ones we currently have. Been working in the NHS for 6 years and we’ve had trouble filling clinical vacancies during that whole period, but in the last 12 months we can’t even fill band 2 admin posts at my trust. Up until this time last year I’d get 40-80 applications for band 2 or 3 posts – now vacancies end up going to advert multiple times before the post being scrapped and the work divided up amongst the rest of the team. Not sustainable for much longer.

  4. You see, it wasn’t 40 brand new hospitals, but also included 39 hospitals that they were considering shutting down at some point in the future.

  5. We don’t need a probe into the 40 hospitals.

    Anyone with half a brain, knew it was bullshit the minute it came out of Johnson’s mouth.

    Lets not pretend we have been waiting around expecting these hospitals to appear before our very eyes- we all knew it was bullshit and these hospitals were never going to appear.

    If you didn’t think it was bullshit the minute it came out of Johnson’s mouth, you might be the reason he was voted into office

  6. No he actually said “40 years hospital” referring to the Liverpool hospital that has been under construction for close to a decade . The mirror has misquoted and mislead people

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