East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire councils urge government to boost health funding

Council leaders in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire are calling for the government to fund local health services.

It's as chancellor Rachel Reeves will be outlining her Autumn budget this week.

Earlier this year plans to move some services out of Scunthorpe Hospital were approved which Councillor Rob Waltham - the Leader - says he'd like to see renounced.

"Now we're fighting a threat of of proposals coming from the NHS to to effectively downgrade our hospital, so I'd like to see some investment in Scunthorpe hospital and a firm commitment not to withdraw services.

"It's not changed in years. It's a it's an older hospital. It had 100 million invested on it, in the last three years. We've had a new A&E and a whole range of other things, but it needs some significant investment.

This is an important part of levelling up as anything because your healthcare system means that people can access it.

"We're finding young people have conditions that they need support with for all sorts of different reasons, stuff that they never diagnosed when I was a kid.

"Now, they're able to diagnose and treat, and not all those are physical. Some are other well-being factors. You've got to have a really important function in the hospital that supports the needs of your community and has everybody travel."

Meanwhile Hull City Council's leader Mike Ross says there's a need for a boost to health and social care.

Mike said:

"For us as Liberal Democrats, we think that there needs to be an investment in health services to make sure that people are able to get the support from the health service that they need. They're able to access doctors appointments, able to get the support across the health service, dentists and like."

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said:

"Almost everybody knows the NHS is broken. We're going to fix it, put it back on his feet, and make it something we can be proud of again."