England’s crumbling hospitals face a repair bill of almost £10 billion as infrastructure failures have led to sewage leaks and ceiling collapses in clinical areas, a new investigation into NHS data has revealed.
At least 1,055 patients had their care impacted by infrastructure problems at NHS hospitals in England during the 2022/23 financial year.
The repairs to Greater Manchester hospitals total almost half-a-billion at least, as data available for some NHS hospital trusts in the region show a collective bill of just over £479m.
The figures have come from an investigation by the BBC Shared Data Unit into the state of the country’s hospitals, uncovering the full scale of a backlog of repairs.