Iain Stewart MP and Ben Everitt MP have welcomed the news that Milton Keynes University Hospital Foundation Trust is set to receive an additional £1,578,000 in order to support A&E capacity ahead of the winter months.
The extra £1.5m means that the Trust will be able to increase its A&E capacity, put enhanced infection prevention and control measures in place and make improvements to emergency care and urgent treatment services.
Across England, the Government is providing £300 million to A&E departments, with work to be completed by the start of next year so hospitals can benefit from the upgrades during the peak of winter.
In June, the Prime Minister announced plans to accelerate £5 billion of infrastructure spending as part of his New Deal for Britain – an ambitious economic strategy to rebuild Britain by putting jobs, skills and infrastructure investment at the heart of the Government’s plans. This funding forms part of the New Deal, which allocated a total of £1.5 billion this year for hospital maintenance, hospital building and A&E expansion.
The funding also comes on top of the additional £3 billion that the Prime Minister recently announced to help prepare the NHS for the winter months ahead. This funding will allow the NHS to continue to use the extra hospital capacity acquired from the independent sector through the coronavirus pandemic, and also to maintain the Nightingale hospitals until the end of March next year.
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Commenting, Iain Stewart MP said: “This further Government investment into our hospital is sensible forward planning to help us cope with any increases in demand over the winter months when seasonal cases tend to be higher.”
Ben Everitt, MP for Milton Keynes North added: "All the staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital have been absolutely amazing during the global pandemic. This new additional funding will help prepare the hospital for winter and the risk from further outbreaks of coronavirus."
