'Where Are Those 40 Hospitals?': Health Secretary Victoria Atkins Skewered Over Tory Election Pledge

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asked Atkins: “I know it was a number of years ago and I know it was under a previous leadership, but where are those 40 hospitals?”

“I’ve been to visit one or two of them that are not completed but very much rising out of the ground. Alongside that we have the programme of works to upgrade existing hospitals.”But Ferrari hit back: “Of the 40, how many will be built by the time we come to a general election?”

 

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