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Plans to re-build Alder Hey childrens hospital may be at risk, following a £50million Labour Government funding cut.
The Echo revealed that the hospital is again looking at plans to move to Widnes, in order to deal with the funding cuts. The hospital would be built under a £350million PFI scheme - where a private company builds the hospital and the government pays them back over 30 years, at several times the cost. Yet the Hospital is worried that it will not receive enough money from the government each year to help pay the "mortgage". Lib Dem Councillor Ian Jobling said, "This could be yet another Labour broken promise. Alder Hey is rightly regarded as one of the best childrens hospitals in Europe. The people of Liverpool will not forgive Labour if new hospital does not get built, or worse, for it to move out of Liverpool." As one resident told the Liverpool Echo, " Last year Labour told us we had to vote for them to save Alder Hey". Now it appears that this was just more spin and lies from Labour. You have to wonder if Labour ever planned to give us a new hospital, or if they were just playing politics with our children's lives. "
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