What a depressing day for our local hospital.
During the campaign I said the NHS plans to improve St Helier and build a second local hospital were under threat from Labour and the Lib Dems - and today that threat’s been confirmed.
The new Labour Government today announced (alongside scrapping winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners) a review with the potential for SCRAPPING new hospital plans like those for St Helier.
As for the Lib Dems, they’ve let them get away it - they have been very open that they oppose the local NHS plan to improve St Helier and build a second hospital. Shameful.
Local NHS staff have put so much work into this plan, getting it to the point that it could apply for planning permission and get building.
Today, Labour and the Lib Dems have sent them back to square one.
I won’t stop fighting for St Helier and I invite residents to help me. More details to come.
