LABOUR has committed to completing the plans to build a new Princess Alexandra Hospital if the party wins power. 

Princess Alexandra Hospital was part of the so-called ’40 new hospitals’ the Conservatives promised during the 2019 general election campaign. The New Hospitals Programme has since been beset by delays, and not a single new hospital has been built five years on. 

Despite Rishi Sunak’s promise on the first day of the election campaign that he would build the new hospital by 2030, contracts for the New Hospitals Programme put out to tender by the Government this year extend to 2035, revealing that the government are planning for a five-year delay.

Labour has set out its commitment to deliver the programme in full, confirming it would build a new integrated, high-tech healthcare campus to replace the ageing Princess Alexandra Hospital. This is part of the party’s plan to get the NHS back on its feet and make it fit for the future. 

To cut record-long waiting lists, Labour will deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week at evenings and weekends, paid for by clamping down on tax dodgers and closing non-dom loopholes.

“Rishi Sunak has promised voters he’ll build 40 new hospitals by 2030, despite his government planning to delay it for another five years. He is either lying to the public or doesn’t have the first clue what’s going on.

“Rishi Sunak failed to keep his promises to cut waiting lists or build a single new hospital. Given another five years in charge, he’ll fail again and waiting lists will hit 10 million. 

“Only Labour has a plan to deliver the change our NHS needs. We are committed to delivering the New Hospitals Programme, including Princess Alexandra Hospital. And we will cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 extra appointments a week at evenings and weekends, paid for by clamping down on tax dodgers and non-doms. We need doctors, not dodgers; nurses not non-doms.”

“There is no clearer sign of the damage the Conservatives have done to our NHS, than the crumbling hospital in which patients in Harlow are being treated. They have failed time and time again on their promise to build it before this election, and given another five years they will fail yet again.

“The rebuild of Princess Alexandra is long overdue. If I’m elected as MP for Harlow I will campaign day and night to get a new Princess Alexandra Hospital built, working with a Labour government to get this done as soon as possible.

“Every time a shadow minister, including Keir Starmer, has come to Harlow, I have been lobbying them for the new hospital Harlow need. It is reassuring that they have listened and that Labour has committed to building this hospital so our NHS is fit for the future.”  

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