YORK Central MP Rachael Maskell will meet Health Minister Steve Barclay on Wednesday to press for public land at Bootham Park Hospital to be used for affordable and social housing for NHS staff.
She will argue that the grounds of the former psychiatric hospital should not be sold to the highest bidder by NHS Property Services Limited.
Ms Maskell said the land at Bootham had been gifted to the people of York for the greater public good and she had fought to get a positive outcome from the shocking closure of the hospital.
She said she had invited representatives from York Teaching Hospital Trust, City of York Council and NHS England to join her in making the case that Bootham should continue as a health campus to meet modern day needs for York.
“Putting profit before people is not a sustainable way to run our NHS,” she added.
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