The Government has unveiled a £132 million wave of new NHS community hospitals and “super-surgeries”. Facilities will now be built or refurbished in towns and cities across the country as part of a major drive to provide NHS patients with better primary care services and more minor operations, medical tests and follow-up care outside of large hospitals.
• Malvern Community Hospital.
• Horsea, Beverley and Driffield Community Hospitals in East Riding.
• Selby Community Hospital.
• Moreton and Bourton Community Hospitals in the North Cotswolds.
• Keynsham Park Hospital in Bath and North Somerset.
• St Mary’s in Portsmouth.
• Berkeley Vale in Gloucestershire.
• St Charles in Kensington, London.
Health Minister Ben Bradshaw said: “These developments represent our commitment to the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS. What this means for patients is that, in addition to being treated in bright, modern facilities, those in need of NHS treatment will be seen quicker – in 18 weeks or less by the end of 2008.”
