Hospitals' 'turn around' under way, says Streeting
BBCA programme is under way to "turn around" the country's worst performing hospital trust, the health secretary has said.
In March, NHS England ranked Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 134th, putting it at the bottom of the league table of acute trusts.
It runs Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham.
Wes Streeting told BBC Radio Humberside he would "not be satisfied until we see your NHS services improving as we are seeing in other parts of the country".
"That's partly about the investment," Streeting said.
"But it is also about supporting the leadership and turning around the trust so they deliver in the same way other trusts are doing with the same resources."
The NHS table, updated quarterly, reflects patient safety, finances and access to services.
Speaking at the time the table was published, a trust spokesperson said: "Our current position in the league table reflects the scale of challenges which the organisation has been managing for some time.
"These issues are not new."
Streeting also announced a £3.5m expansion of the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Hull city centre, which opened in September.
It offers MRI, CT scans and X-rays as well as blood tests and other services.
The extra funding will buy an additional MRI scanner and provide audiology services.
Streeting also announced further investment in the Grantham CDC in Lincolnshire.
More than £200,000 will be spent expanding the site on Gonerby Road.
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