{"id":720244,"date":"2026-07-31T03:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:48:17","slug":"company-signs-contract-to-build-new-milton-keynes-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720244\/","title":{"rendered":"Company signs contract to build new Milton Keynes Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Contracts have been signed with a construction firm to build a new hospital for Milton Keynes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the government&#8217;s New Hospital Programme, called &#8220;Hospital 2.0&#8221;, Morgan Sindall Construction has been named as the company behind the work at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MKUH). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joe Harrison, the hospital&#8217;s chief executive officer, said it was &#8220;vital that we continue to invest in our hospital to ensure we can meet the needs of our communities both now and in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust previously said the work could start in 2027 and the hospital could open by 2030. The building will house maternity and children&#8217;s services as well as surgical beds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contracts have been signed with a construction firm to build a new hospital for Milton Keynes. As part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}