I'm Backing North Devon District Hospital

Ian Roome's Challenge to the Health Secretary:

On Monday 21st January, in response to a Parliamentary Question from Ian Roome, MP for North Devon, the Health Secretary West Streeting MP pledged a Ministerial visit to North Devon District Hospital.

Following the announcement that funding for critical infrastructure upgrades on our hospital will be delayed until 2035, we're challenging the Health Secretary to fulfill that promise - and see the essential need for upgrades for himself.

Add your name to Ian Roome's Open Letter to the Health Secretary today:

Background

North Devon District Hospital serves over 160,000 people over North Devon, Torridge and North Cornwall.

In January 2025 the new Labour Government announced funding for North Devon District Hospital's rebuild under the New Hospital Programme would be delayed until 2035. The decision follows five years in which similar funding promised by the last Conservative Government was shown to not exist.

Ian Roome MP and the Liberal Democrats have repeatedly challenged this decision in Parliament, and our campaign to upgrade NDDH's Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Unit and Women's & Children's Unit continues. Critical care facilities are failing, and the delay to essential repairs puts patients at risk - with no alternative acute hospital for over 40 miles.