Also featuring on the framework are London-based practices ADP, Corstorphine Wright, 4D Studio Architects and Twelve Architects.

Outside the capital, the teams include YMD Boon of Leicestershire, Gilling Dod Architects of Chorley, Worcester’s One Creative Environments, and AHR Architects of Manchester.

The list is completed by Broadway Malyan of Birmingham, Medical Architecture from Newcastle upon Tyne, and LSI Architects of Norwich.

Teams selected for the four-year framework will work on a range of projects across the service’s 6,500ha estate in England, which includes around 26 million m² of buildings across 1,200 sites.

The framework is divided into four geographic lots covering the North, the Midlands, London and the South.

The NHS in England is one of the country’s largest public employers with 1.4 million staff and more than £100 billion in annual funding.

NHS England launched a search for a programme delivery partner for its ongoing new hospitals investment drive one year ago.