Wokingham’s Liberal Democrat MP, Clive Jones, voted on a Liberal Democrat motion to fix local NHS buildings which are crumbling and to reverse the Government’s delays to the New Hospital Programme.
Labour and Conservative MPs did not vote for the motion.
The Lib Dem motion would have created a crumbling hospitals taskforce to work at the heart of government to fix NHS buildings which are falling apart and also drive forward the New Hospitals Programme, reversing the delays to 18 of the 40 projects.
Labour’s New Hospitals Programme has pushed the rebuild of Royal Berks back to 2037.
Clive Jones added: “Chemotherapy is still being delivered in a building that predates the NHS and the First World War. The A&E was designed to only accommodate 100,000 people a year, but it regularly serves well over that –150,000 people annually.”
Clive Jones said that he was “disappointed” at the Government and Conservatives’ “lack of ambition when it comes to securing the local health services our community deserves”.
Wokingham’s Liberal Democrat MP, Clive Jones, pledged to continue to push the Government to rescue Berkshire’s NHS and “bring the change that people in Wokingham so desperately need”.
Liberal Democrat MP for Wokingham, Clive Jones, said: “When people here in Wokingham go to hospital or need to see their GP, the only thing they should be worrying about is getting the treatment they need. It is shocking that so many have to worry about whether the building they are supposed to be getting better in will fall apart around them. Patients and staff deserve the dignity of safe, modern and clean hospitals.
“That is why I am so disappointed by this Government and the Conservatives’ lack of ambition when it comes to securing the local health services our community deserves. After years of shameful Conservative neglect, this is a situation the Government can no longer afford to ignore, yet they chose to do just that today.
“My Liberal Democrat colleagues and I will continue to push the Government to rescue our local health services and finally bring the change that people in Wokingham so desperately need.”
