{"id":377871,"date":"2026-01-19T03:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:09:21","slug":"stepping-hill-hospital-crumbling-around-nhs-staff-and-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377871\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Hill Hospital &#8216;crumbling around&#8217; NHS staff and patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stockport Council is due to debate a motion about the state of the hospital on Thursday, with councillors facing calls to &#8220;urgently fund repairs&#8221;, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat MP Tom Morrison, a former councillor in Stockport, said: &#8220;Our NHS staff at Stepping Hill have been working miracles in buildings that are literally crumbling around them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to nurses who&#8217;ve had to move patients because of water coming through the ceiling. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s simply not good enough &#8211; not for our staff who give everything every single day and certainly not for our residents who deserve so much better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While 40 hospitals across the country were chosen for restoration funding, Stepping Hill was left out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thursday&#8217;s council motion claims Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting and Health Minister Karin Smyth have both been invited to visit the hospital but neither have so far done so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morrison added: &#8220;It&#8217;s deeply disappointing that [they] haven&#8217;t found the time to visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If they did, they&#8217;d understand why this can&#8217;t wait any longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stockport Council is due to debate a motion about the state of the hospital on Thursday, with councillors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-377871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377871","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=377871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}