NHS appoints 10 firms for £37bn hospital programme
Eleven new healthcare facilities will be delivered under the Hospital 2.0 Alliance, including Leighton in Cheshire and North Manchester General in Crumpsall.
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’s £37bn New Hospitals Programme.
The full list of contractors appointed to the NHS’s panel is:
- Bovis Construction
- Dragados Sociedad Anonima
- Integrated Health Projects – the JV between Sir Robert McAlpine and VINCI
- John Graham Construction
- Kier Construction
- Laing O’Rourke Delivery
- Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure
- Sacyr UK
- Skanska Construction UK
- Willmott Dixon
BAM Construction, Bouygues UK, FCC Construcción, John Sisk & Son, McLaren Construction, and Multiplex Construction Europe missed out.
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.
The 11 Hospital 2.0 facilities are:
- Milton Keynes Hospital
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn (RAAC)
- Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey (RAAC),
- James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth (RAAC)
- Hillingdon Hospital, London
- Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Cambridgeshire (RAAC)
- North Manchester General Hospital
- West Suffolk Hospital (RAAC)
- Leighton Hospital, Cheshire (RAAC)
- Airedale General Hospital, Yorkshire
- Women and Children’s Hospital, Cornwall
Karin Smyth, minister of state for health, said: “This 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.
“By backing a standardised approach to hospital building, we are giving the construction sector the certainty it needs to invest in skills, capacity and 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.”
Natalie Forrest, chief programme officer at NHP, said: “The Hospital 2.0 Alliance is about transforming how we deliver hospitals.
“By working together under a true alliance model, we’re creating the conditions for faster delivery, better value, and consistent quality at scale.”
