Crumbling hospital 'could face more issues'

BOSSES BRACED FOR FURTHER PROBLEMS AFTER MISSING OUT ON GOVERNMENT CASH

- HELENA VESTY

A CRUMBLING hospital will continue to experience the serious impacts of its old age having being denied money by multiple governments, bosses have admitted.

Stepping Hill Hospital is facing a bill of more than £130m to fix a decaying estate.

Over the course of four months this year, the Stockport hospital has seen one of its major outpatient buildings condemned followed by two 'unexpected and unrelated' ceilings collapsing in its radiology department and its critical care unit.

Those incidents have led to a serious dip in the capacity for outpatient appointments and the hospital's intensive care department being out of action for days.