{"id":429944,"date":"2026-01-22T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429944\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:39:08","slug":"health-secretary-pledges-end-to-corridor-care-as-he-faces-nhs-questions-from-bbc-local-radio-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429944\/","title":{"rendered":"Health secretary pledges end to &#8216;corridor care&#8217; as he faces NHS questions from BBC local radio stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streeting &#8216;on the case&#8217; with hospital repairspublished at 11:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following claims conditions at Stepping Hill Hospital are forcing staff to care for patients in &#8220;buildings that are literally crumbling around them&#8221;, Mike Sweeney asked Streeting what the government planned to do about the current state of disrepair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Streeting told BBC Radio Manchester, \u201cI\u2019m on the case. I met the Stockport MP just last week to talk about this&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe\u2019ve put \u00a32.5m in already for some of the essential safety works and we&#8217;ve given the local trust \u00a375m over the next four years as well.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cBut I know that this is something that local MPs and councillors are banging the drum for, so people should start seeing improvements at Stepping Hill, but there is lots more to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This comes after a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson previously said the government inherited a &#8220;broken NHS&#8221;, with the hospital estate left to crumble. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are providing Stepping Hill Hospital with over \u00a32.5m this year for targeted essential safety works, including fire safety improvements. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In addition, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has been allocated over \u00a375m over the next four years which can be used to improve conditions at Stepping Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike has short grey hair and is wearing a black jumper. He is wearing headphones and talking into a purple microphone.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c217ae09-78dc-4cd9-89b7-a9e145753878.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"517\" height=\"291\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streeting &#8216;on the case&#8217; with hospital repairspublished at 11:49 GMT 11:49 GMT Following claims conditions at Stepping Hill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-429944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}