Boris Johnson has announced the 20 NHS hospitals in England that will benefit from his £850 million spending pledge to upgrade outdated facilities and equipment.

The Prime Minister is making the commitment as part of his £1.8 billion cash injection for the health service during a speech at a Lincolnshire hospital on Monday.

However campaigners say that the extra cash is just a ‘drop in the ocean’ compared to what is needed.

Yet health secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC: ‘The economy is growing strongly and, ultimately, all public services, the long list you gave, and of course the biggest amongst them is the NHS, they are paid for by having a strong economy.

‘There is a record number of people in work at the moment, that means a record number of people paying income tax, a record low number of people who are claiming unemployment, so that gives you more money.’

Mr Hancock added: ‘I guarantee that we now have all plans in place to make sure that the NHS will be prepared whatever the Brexit scenario.’

Here is a full list of the hospitals and the funding they will receive:

list of the hospitals that will receive funding

East of England

– Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (FT): £99.5 million for a new block in Luton to provide critical and intensive care, as well as a delivery suite and operating theatres

– Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT: £69.7 million to provide diagnostic and assessment centres in Norwich, Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn

– Norfolk and Suffolk NHS FT: £40 million to build four new hospital wards in Norwich, providing 80 beds

– NHS South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group: £25.2 million to develop and improve primary care services

 Midlands

– University Hospitals Birmingham: £97.1 million to provide a new purpose-built hospital facility, replacing outdated outpatient, treatment and diagnostic accommodation

– United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust: £21.3 million to improve patient flow in Boston by developing urgent and emergency care zones in A&E

– Wye Valley NHS Trust: £23.6 million to provide new hospital wards in Hereford, providing 72 beds

– University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust: £17.6 million to create three new modern wards to improve capacity and patient flow in Stoke, delivering approximately 84 beds for this winter

London

– Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge CCGs and North East London NHS Foundation Trust: £17 million to develop a new health and wellbeing hub

– Croydon Health Services NHS Trust: £12.7 million to extend and refurbish critical care units at the Croydon University Hospital

North East and Yorkshire

– South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System: £57.5 million for primary care investment

– Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT: £41.7 million to improve paediatric cardiac services in the North East

– Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: £12 million to provide a single laboratory information management system across West Yorkshire and Harrogate, covering all pathology disciplines

North West

– Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT: £72.3 million to build a new adult mental health inpatient unit

– Mersey Care NHS FT: £33 million to provide a new 40-bed low secure unit for people with learning disabilities

– Stockport NHS FT: £30.6 million to provide a new emergency care campus development at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, incorporating an urgent treatment centre, GP assessment unit and planned investigation unit

– NHS Wirral CCG: £18 million to improve patient flow by improving access via the urgent treatment centre

– Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS FT: £16.3 million to provide emergency and urgent care facilities at Tameside General Hospital

South East

– Isle of Wight NHS Trust: £48 million to redesign acute services

South West

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: £99.9 million to build a new women’s and children’s hospital in the centre of the Royal Cornwall Hospital site in Truro

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