{"id":698150,"date":"2026-07-18T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698150\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:00:14","slug":"health-secretary-urged-to-commit-to-new-warrington-and-halton-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698150\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Secretary urged to commit to new Warrington and Halton hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warringtonguardian.co.uk\/news\/26265873.new-warrington-hospital-plea-renewed-amid-grim-e-performance-stats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warrington South Labour MP Sarah Hall spoke in Parliament to renew her plea for a new hospital<\/a>, which she said is \u2018urgently needed\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This call has been echoed by Sarah Pochin, the Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, who made the plea in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said that much of the hospital estate covering the two boroughs has not been updated since the 1960s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She also said that Warrington and Halton hospitals can \u2018no longer cope\u2019 to support what is a rapidly growing population.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking in Westminster, Ms Pochin said: \u201cNow that the capital spending plan has been published, can the minister confirm whether Warrington and Halton will receive the funding for a desperately needed new hospital?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe existing hospital estate has not been substantially upgraded since the 1960s, and it can no longer cope with the capacity needed to serve the growing local population.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWill he commit to delivering a modern hospital for the next generation, including residents of Runcorn and Helsby?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An oral response was given by James Murray, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cWe want to improve the NHS estate across the country, which is why we are increasing capital investment to \u00a315billion pounds a year by 2028-28.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIn terms of the specific investment in her constituency, I am happy to write to her with further details.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking after the Parliamentary session, Ms Pochin added: \u201cI asked the Health Minister to back a desperately needed new hospital for Halton and Warrington.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cResidents across Runcorn and Helsby deserve modern healthcare facilities that are fit for the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Warrington South Labour MP Sarah Hall spoke in Parliament to renew her plea for a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698150","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\/698150","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=698150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}