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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Christopher McKeon

New hospitals programme will take decade longer than Tories planned – Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has set out a new timetable for the previous government’s New Hospitals Programme. (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

Building the 40 new hospitals promised by the previous government will take at least a decade longer than planned, the Health Secretary has said.

Wes Streeting accused the Conservatives of failing to fund their government’s 2019 promise of providing the new facilities by 2030, saying the pledge had been “built on the shaky foundation of false hope”.

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