The government is once again letting down Westminster residents and many others by postponing the rebuilding of St Mary’s hospital to after 2030. The urgency of works at St Mary’s is confirmed by Prof Tim Orchard, CEO of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust response to the announcements who states quite clearly “ If we wait until 2030 to start building works at St Mary’s, it would become impossible to patch up our old facilities, many of which house clinical services. As the provider of London’s busiest major trauma centre and host of the NHS’s largest biomedical research centre, that would be hugely damaging for the health and healthcare of hundreds of thousands of people.” So watch this space in the lead up to the next General Election.