{"id":302080,"date":"2025-12-06T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302080\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:53:37","slug":"new-2-3bn-hospital-plans-for-cambridge-ambitious-but-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302080\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u00a32.3bn hospital plans for Cambridge &#8216;ambitious but necessary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a key part of the plans, the trust hopes to set up health centres &#8220;in each neighbourhood&#8221; for traditionally hospital-based services such as diagnostics and post-operative care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It wants to &#8220;develop a future-proof health system that allows patients to access care in a timely and safe fashion, and in the place that&#8217;s right for them at the time they&#8217;re accessing it&#8221;, said Dr Coggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the plans were in their early stages and significant funding was required to progress them further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether a hospital costing \u00a32.3bn was a pipedream, she said: &#8220;I think it is a very ambitious aim, but equally it is a very necessary aim for us to be able to provide a healthcare system that&#8217;s fit for the community for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daniel Zeichner, the Labour MP for Cambridge, said that to accommodate growth, &#8220;one of the things that has to happen is payback to the local community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the end, [the money for the hospital] will come from government but it will also come, I would say, from the huge amount of money that will become available through the development of these new sites and new housing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a key part of the plans, the trust hopes to set up health centres &#8220;in each neighbourhood&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-302080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}