Leicester Trust: Trust and University Hospitals

leicester trust: A further 21 trusts will get a small amount of seed-funding to kick-start their plans for the end of the next decade, according to The Guardian. Whipps Crosshospital, Epsom and St Helier trust, West Hertfordshire trust, Princess Alexandra Hospital trust, University Hospitals of Leicester trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust will share 2.7bn from the Treasury, a Conservative party statement said as the party conference opened in Manchester. Prime minister Boris Johnson declared that 40 new hospitals would be built, but almost all the money earmarked will go to just six NHS trusts, which each have a major hospital badly in need of rebuilding and have had plans waiting for approval. While this money is very much needed following years of underinvestment in the NHS's crumbling infrastructure, it falls well short of the scale of the challenge, said Anita Charlesworth, head of research and economics at the Health Foundation think tank. Such piecemeal funding makes it difficult for trusts to adequately plan their spending. With a backlog of maintenance and repairs that amounts to more than 6bn - much of which threatens patient's safety and dozens of NHS trust upgrade projects that have been delayed or cancelled, the figure needed is closer to 3bn each year for the next five years. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.