Councillors keep up pressure to save St Helier Hospital

Mitcham & Morden

Your Labour Action Team remain deeply concerned about St Helier Hospital. We know that residents are worried that the decision to relocate services from the current site at St Helier Hospital to the site in Belmont will reduce access to essential health provision. With the cost-of-living crisis the potential future impact of travel costs to get to the new site only increases this concern.

Councillor Peter McCabe, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, has met with senior NHS officers to discuss whether there is an opportunity to review previous decisions and if the proposed new hospital remains affordable. We will continue to fight for our residents. That is why we have kept our promise to stress the need for an alternative plan that protects and enhances the buildings and services at the current St Helier site. This will mean that if the promised new hospitals do not get built that there is a plan B in place that ensures our residents can continue to access the high-quality services they have a right to expect.