The Government has allocated nearly £4 million to Hull Royal Infirmary to improve various facilities at the site.
The funding has been allocated to the hospital from the Governments Estates Safety Fund that Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Autumn Budget in October 2024. Ms Reeves’ Budget confirmed that for the 2025/26 year the fund would provide £750 million to improve infrastructure in various NHS buildings across the country.
The NHS Humber Health Partnership has received £9.7 million, which includes £3.9 million for the Hull Royal Infirmary. The funding will set to go towards providing improvements to infrastructure such as the hospital’s elevators and ventilation systems.
The NHS Humber Health Partnership’s Group Director of Estates, Facilities and Development, Tom Myers, said: “We are happy to have secured this additional funding, which will allow us to address some of our most critical infrastructure issues across our hospital sites, improving the background infrastructure that allows our hospitals to run safely and efficiently for our patients.
“Like many NHS organisations, one of the biggest challenges we face is the upkeep and maintenance of our aging estates and facilities and this funding will allow us to deal with some of these issues.
“We will be focusing on things that will make the biggest difference to our patients – things like repairing and replacing lifts at HRI; upgrading the medical gas systems and carrying out roof works to help keep our buildings warm and water tight.”
The funding for the hospital has also been welcomed by the local Member of Parliament, Labour’s Dame Diana Johnson. On social media Dame Diana said: “Very welcome news for patients in Hull as this Labour Government continues to deliver on our promise to turn the NHS around.
“Step by step, we’re not only lifting the NHS off its knees with more appointments and more GPs, but helping to make it fit for the future with vital maintenance to help prevent cancelled appointments and operations.”
On the funding, the Government’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “A decade and a half of underinvestment left hospitals crumbling, with burst pipes flooding emergency departments, faulty electrical systems shutting down operating theatres, and mothers giving birth in outdated facilities that lack basic dignity.
“We are on a mission to rebuild our NHS through investment and modernisation.
“Patients and staff deserve to be in buildings that are safe, comfortable and fit for purpose. Through our Plan for Change, we will make our NHS fit for the future.”
By: Andrew Spence, LDRS
