The Seaton area community has given £5.25 million to Seaton Hospital – give it back to us
In 2016, I added up the contributions that the local community had made to the hospital. It came to over £2.8 million in constant prices, which represented over £4 million at 2016 prices. I have now used the Bank of England’s inflation calculator to produced an updated estimate. The local donations amount to £5,251,830 at September 2023 prices – and that’s not counting donations since 2016.
A hospital built with over 50 per cent local contributions should never have been handed to a company like NHS Property Services which charges the NHS extortionate rents. Morally it belongs to the local community.
If the NHS can’t use a whole wing of the hospital – a wing that was built 100 per cent by local donations – NHSPS should give it back to us, free of charge.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 