A Labour MP has accused the Government of “diverting money away from frontline services”, after a hospital was given a £20.8 million funding boost last week.

Northwick Park Hospital, in Watford Road, was given the sum to improve urgent care facilities, subject to planning permission. Statistics at the hospital showed that the number of A&E patients at the hospital shot up by 30 per cent in three years and Andrew Lansley, Health Secretary, said the money would allow patients to benefit from “world-class equipment.”

But Gareth Thomas, MP for Harrow West, said: “The reality of this is that the Tory-led Government’s NHS reforms are actually diverting money away from the frontline services that families in Harrow are depending on.

“For example, £13 million is being spent on abolishing Harrow Primary Care Trust, yet in January, opening hours at popular local health centres, like Alexandra Avenue Clinic, Rayners Lane, were cut substantially.”

He urged David Cameron to “scrap his top down re-organisation of the NHS”, and ensure that NHS funding is spent on improving patient care.

The hospital will also receive money for new operating theatres, A&E departments and other services, as well as new scanners and ultrasound equipment, as part of the overall £330 million allocation for England.

A statement from North West London Hospital’s NHS Trust said that the hospital applied for funding from the Department of Health, to redevelop and relocate the A&E department after seeing a 20 per cent surge in emergency hospital admissions, and a 30 per cent rise in A&E patients.

It said: “The funding would come from savings that the Department of Health has made in its capital budget.”