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A Brand new £500m NHS Hospital lying DESERTED and UNUSED just three Miles from where Theresa May Launched her 10-year Plan for Health Service

January 08, 2019
The new £500m hospital lying empty just three miles from where Theresa May launched her 
Three miles from yesterday's NHS launch, a £500million hospital lies empty and unused. 

The 13-storey building, with an atrium, top left, and a recovery centre, bottom left, houses top-of-the range scanners and other medical equipment - and was meant to have been finished two years ago.

 Managers at its trust are having to employ 18 staff to turn the 4,000 taps on and off regularly in a bid to prevent the build-up of deadly legionella bacteria. And warranties on its brand new equipment, seen bottom right, are rapidly expiring. 

Staff can't even switch off the lights in the new building, seen top right, as the electrics are incomplete and they remain permanently on, in a further waste of energy and money. 

 

The plans were unveiled in Liverpool yesterday by Theresa May and health chiefs under a ten-year strategy for the NHS, which sets out how a £20billion cash injection will be spent
Prime Minister Theresa May visited the wards at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, just three miles from an unused £500million hospital. She launched her NHS Long Term Plan from the hospital yesterday

The 13-storey building, with its atrium pictured above, houses top-of-the range scanners and other medical equipment – and was meant to have been finished two years ago 

Managers at its trust are having to employ 18 staff to turn the 4,000 taps on and off regularly in a bid to prevent the build-up of deadly legionella bacteria. And warranties on its brand new equipment are rapidly expiring 

Louise Ellman MP and Regional Mayor Steve Rotherham took a look inside the project. Work ground to a halt last January following a botched private finance initiative deal with the now collapsed company Carillion 

Source:dailymail

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