The Mancunian Way: The long wait for a new hospital
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When Boris Johnson came to North Manchester General in September 2019 he made a bold promise to build a brand new hospital. Full of bluster ahead of the Tory Party conference, the then Prime Minister had been chatting to NHS staff with the promise of huge investment.
He answered my questions in optimistic tones. But - ever the journalist - he couldn’t resist telling me what the story was. “The story here in North Manchester General Hospital is that you’ve got incredible staff, incredible doctors, incredible nurses doing cutting edge stuff.
They are brilliant but the facilities aren’t good enough. It’s like asking a premiership footballer to play on a ploughed field," he said.
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