During a statement to the House of Commons, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has given an update on the new hospitals programme, which includes investment into Royal Hampshire County Hospital and the wider North and Mid Hampshire area.
Steve Brine, Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, welcomed the significant investment in Winchester saying : " At the last election, I promised my constituents significant investment in Winchester Hospital. That is already happening, and now with early work in cohort 4 we have the promise of the elective hub to scale the orthopaedic list."
Mr Brine continued, asking : "Can the Secretary of State be clear with my constituents that, as the new Hampshire hospital comes together as part of the wider cohort 4, it will be for clinicians to make the clinical case on what safe and sustainable services look like in the long term for those people?"
Steve Barclay responded saying : " As my hon. Friend knows, with his scheme in North and Mid Hampshire, there are issues around the new site for junction 7 of the M3, where there is significant work on potential land acquisition and what upgrading of the motorway would be required. There is a question about the size of the hospital versus other services offered locally. Those are the issues we are keen to get in discussion with the North and Mid Hampshire trusts on, and that will be part of the rolling programme we take forward."
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