The cost of ‘high-risk’ repair works across Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust facilities has been revealed. 

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which looks after the Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals among other sites, needs urgent maintenance, data analysed by the House of Commons Library suggests.

Completing the repair works classed as high-risk is estimated to cost more than £44 million, the data shows.  

This means the Buckinghamshire Trust faces the ninth highest backlog costs of all Trust in England.

The cost to complete all maintenance backlogs ranging from high risk to low risk totalled more than £178 million. 

The NHS defines high-risk repairs as those which “must be addressed with urgent priority in order to prevent catastrophic failure, major disruption to clinical services or deficiencies in safety liable to cause serious injury or prosecution”.

Chesham and Amersham MP Sarah Green commented: “The extent of the NHS’s high-risk repair backlog in Buckinghamshire is deeply concerning.

“It is the Government’s duty to ensure that staff and patients are safe in our National Health Service. 

“The Chancellor must urgently provide the funds necessary to carry out these repairs. His plan to cut the NHS’ capital spending budget in real terms in two years’ time is dangerous to NHS staff, dangerous to patients, and quite simply wrong.”

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which is classed as a 'multi-service' Trust, deals with 104,055 hospital admissions each year. 

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First on the list was Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - a Trust classed as 'teaching' with 198,460 hospital admissions yearly. 

It is facing a bill of more than £368 million in high risk repairs, the data shows. 

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust released a statement in response to the findings: 

“Keeping our patients, staff and the public safe is our top priority. We continue to work closely with NHS England on solutions, as part of the wider hospital infrastructure programme, whilst also working through the maintenance backlog for our various properties and putting safety measures in place wherever necessary.

“One of our buildings most in need of repair is the Wycombe Hospital tower, which was built in the 1960s. Making the Wycombe site fit for the 21st century is a core part of our strategy to serve the local community and a proposal to redevelop the site is currently with the Trust board for approval.

“The Trust is working hard to ensure that the services based in all our buildings can operate as normal, while we work towards refurbishing current facilities or replacing them with new buildings, such as the new, purpose-built Waddesdon Wing at Stoke Mandeville Hospital which now houses the Trust’s maternity and gynaecological departments.”