St Mary’s: Crumbling hospital must be rebuilt, Trust boss says

One of those hoping for a rebuild at St Mary’s is Nadia Tavernier-Gustave, the lead nurse for specialist medicine.

She showed BBC London around the Almroth Wright ward. It is not built for 21st-century care.

The corridors are too narrow for hospital beds so patients have to be transferred to trolleys to get on to the ward.

There’s a slope from one end of the corridor to the other and holes in some of the walls.

One end of the corridor is in darkness because the lights have failed and need rewiring.

It is uncomfortably hot.

Ms Tavernier-Gustave said the nurses “are trying their best to give the best care they can possibly give”, but it’s in an environment that doesn’t aid better health.

She added: “I want to be able to give the nurses good working conditions and I can’t do that on this ward at the moment.”