Hospital to be given funding to carry out upgrade

A hospital in Hull is to get money from the government to spend on upgrading its building.

More than 400 hospitals and health facilities across the country will receive a share of the £750m Estates Safety Fund announced in last year's Autumn Budget.

Hull Royal Infirmary will get almost £4m for internal improvements and ventilation systems as well as replacing and upgrading its lifts.

The funding aims to prevent appointments and operations being cancelled due to problems with the buildings, the government said.

The government said services were impacted more than 4,000 times in 2023-24 due to issues with poor quality buildings.

Elsewhere in the region, hospitals in Boston, Grimsby and Scunthorpe will also receive funding for improvement work.

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