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By Chloë McCulloch2019-10-25T05:00:00
We need politicians to give the NHS estate their full attention, then perhaps they can use the construction industry more effectively to ease the pain
The NHS estate is burdened with a £6.5bn maintenance backlog – that’s half a billion pounds more than last year. The austerity years have clearly taken their toll. While revenue spending has kept in line with inflation in the past decade, capital expenditure has not – in fact building and maintenance budgets have been raided for the sake of those politically sensitive frontline services.
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