HILLINGDON HOSPITAL staff and young patients were delighted to welcome Boris Johnson when he opened the new wing of Peter Pan children’s ward today.

The MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip spent an hour visiting the children’s ward and the newly refurbished children’s A&E department on Friday, October 21.

The new wing features four high-spec en-suite rooms with lots of space for patients and their families, including chair-beds for parents.

There is a dedicated treatment room as well as a separate teenage room where young people can chill out together and watch TV or play on games consoles.

Mr Johnson chatted to patients, including six-year-old Adeela Sarwari, who was having a lesson in her room with her hospital teacher, Louise Mander, watched by her father Qais Sarwari.

The opening of the new children’s Peter Pan wing marks the latest step in the improvement of women’s and children’s services at the hospital.

The building projects are part of the £4.4 million invested as part of the wider Shaping a Healthier Future programme designed to improve healthcare services across the whole of north-west London.

Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, Shane DeGaris, said: “This is a great example of our ongoing commitment to improving women’s and children’s services, already highly regarded, and this sort of facility is the sort of template we want for buildings like this right across the hospital.”

Declaring the extension formally open, Mr Johnson said: “We’re going to need great facilities like this more and more, so congratulations to everyone involved.”