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Dec 2020
Harrogate hospital set for £800,000 maintenance upgrades
Harrogate and District Foundation Trust has been allocated £800,000 for hospital maintenance in a funding announcement from the government.
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded £600 million across 174 health trusts aimed at tackling critical improvements for hospitals.
It comes as part of a wider £1.5 billion fund announced earlier this year, which also includes plans to modernise mental health facilities, expand A&E capacity and improve infection control ahead of winter.
A total of 1,800 projects have been funded, with six granted funding in Harrogate.
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The trust said the funds will help to tackle backlog maintenance work, including upgrades to the hospital’s water and fire systems.
Harrogate Integrated Facilities (HIF), a subsidiary of the trust which deals with the hospital’s estates, will carry out the work.
Jonathan Coulter, deputy chief executive and director of finance at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and chief executive of HIF, said:
Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care, said:
In August, the trust also received £527,000 to help increase capacity at Harrogate hospital’s accident and emergency department.
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