NHS signs off deals for eleven new hospitals

Marking a major milestone, a total of eleven contracts have been signed to deliver new hospitals across the country.

The agreements bring together NHS trusts and leading construction companies to deliver the hospital schemes through a new collaborative approach that is designed to build modern hospitals more efficiently, while ensuring every scheme continues to meet the needs of its local patients, staff and communities.

The partnerships will support the delivery of Hospital 2.0 – the New Hospital Programme’s modern, standardised approach to designing, building and operating hospitals. Combining national standards, digital innovation and modern methods of construction, Hospital 2.0 will improve quality and productivity while creating healthcare environments that are safer, more sustainable and fit for the future.

Karin Smyth, Minister of State for Health, said: “For too long, the construction of new hospitals has been bogged down by bureaucratic procurement processes, even after full approval and funding was in place, and we’re determined to change that.

The changes announced today are a major step forward in streamlining the procurement process. Patients can look forward to new hospitals being delivered quicker, industry can plan with certainty, and taxpayers can be assured that we are getting maximum value for their money.”

The first wave of Hospital 2.0 partnerships includes:

• Airedale NHS Foundation Trust – GRAHAM
• Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust – Sacyr UK
• Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Laing O’Rourke
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Skanska
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Bovis Construction
• Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Leighton Hospital) – Integrated Health Projects (VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine joint venture)
• Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Morgan Sindall Construction
• North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (Hinchingbrooke Hospital) – Kier Construction
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust – Skanska
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust – Willmott Dixon Construction
• West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust – DRAGADOS Sociedad Anónima