Eleven new healthcare facilities will be delivered under the Hospital 2.0 Alliance, including Leighton in Cheshire and North Manchester General in Crumpsall.<\/p>\n
The NHS has selected 10 construction firms to deliver the projects, which will replace existing hospitals that have reached end of life and\/or contain potentially unstable RAAC. They form part of the government\u2019s \u00a337bn New Hospitals Programme.<\/p>\n
The full list of contractors appointed to the NHS\u2019s panel is:<\/p>\n
Dragados Sociedad Anonima<\/p>\n
Integrated Health Projects \u2013 the JV between Sir Robert McAlpine and VINCI<\/p>\n
Laing O\u2019Rourke Delivery<\/p>\n
Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure<\/p>\n
BAM Construction, Bouygues UK, FCC Construcci\u00f3n, John Sisk & Son, McLaren Construction, and Multiplex Construction Europe missed out.<\/p>\n
The process of deciding which firm will build which of the 11 schemes will now begin. In January 2025, the NHS named 16 projects on the wave one list that are to start on site between 2025 and 2030. Of those, 11 will be constructed under the Hospital 2.0 initiative, a standardised approach to construction using modern technologies.<\/p>\n
The 11 Hospital 2.0 facilities are:<\/p>\n
Milton Keynes Hospital
\nQueen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn (RAAC)
\nFrimley Park Hospital, Surrey (RAAC),
\nJames Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth (RAAC)
\nHillingdon Hospital, London
\nHinchingbrooke Hospital, Cambridgeshire (RAAC)
\nNorth Manchester General Hospital
\nWest Suffolk Hospital (RAAC)
\nLeighton Hospital, Cheshire (RAAC)
\nAiredale General Hospital, Yorkshire
\nWomen and Children\u2019s Hospital, Cornwall<\/p>\n
Karin Smyth, minister of state for health, said: \u201cThis Government is making the long-term investment required to rebuild and modernise our NHS, and the Hospital 2.0 Alliance is central to that commitment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy backing a standardised approach to hospital building, we are giving the construction sector the certainty it needs to invest in skills,\u202fcapacity\u202fand innovation. This is about partnering with industry to deliver better hospitals faster, while driving productivity and value for the NHS and adding to the economic growth of the entire country.\u201d
Natalie Forrest, chief programme officer at NHP, said: \u201cThe Hospital 2.0 Alliance is about transforming how we deliver hospitals.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy working together under a true alliance model, we\u2019re creating the conditions for faster delivery, better value, and consistent quality at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven new healthcare facilities will be delivered under the Hospital 2.0 Alliance, including Leighton in Cheshire and North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-309913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}