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04.05.2024 - 15:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Patients were forced to be evacuated and scans cancelled after two ceilings collapsed within a day of one another at a crumbling Greater Manchester hospital.
Stepping Hill Hospital has suffered two ceiling collapses in recent weeks because of leaks within the heating system. The collapses came inside the radiology department and in the critical care unit, where seriously ill patients receive intensive and high-dependency treatment.
The Stockport hospital has long been struggling with its ageing buildings becoming increasingly decrepit, and the continued major structural concerns are being called ‘dangerous for both patients and staff’.
READ MORE: Greater Manchester hospital 'immediately' closes major department
The two ceiling collapses follow the 'immediate' complete closure of the hospital’s Outpatient B department in November, which the Manchester Evening News reported. The closure came because of a ‘significant deterioration of the structure of the building’, according to inspectors.
That outpatient unit is now only providing 51 per cent of the outpatient appointments it should. Some of the services that were provided in the Outpatient B unit are now operating at less than the previous capacity.
“A small number of services, including ophthalmology, are still to be found temporary homes due to the need to accommodate large pieces of equipment that are not easy to move,” said a report from Stockport NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, Karen James, to the most recent board meeting in April.
“Our estates team is prioritising efforts to find alternative accommodation for those services as well as permanent homes for the others as we move forward with the demolition of Outpatients B.”
The first partial ceiling
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