NHS England Announces Programme Delivery Partner for New Hospital Programme
HDR Selected as Consortium Partner
NHS England has appointed a joint venture of global delivery consultants and construction experts, Mace, and global professional services company, Turner & Townsend, as the Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) for the New Hospital Programme (NHP). HDR is a consortium partner to the joint venture for this once-in-a-generation scheme that will deliver much needed new hospitals and transform healthcare facilities to benefit patients and clinicians nationwide.
The NHP was first established in October 2020 to build a series of new hospitals across the U.K., alongside replacing or refurbishing existing facilities and improving access to modern healthcare nationwide. Following a strategic review in September 2024, the Secretary of State for Health announced a rebalancing of the portfolio of hospital schemes, with secured funding in five-year waves of investment. The programme will prioritise rebuilding healthcare facilities built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), with the first seven projects being delivered by 2030. Further hospitals will be delivered in waves over the next 15 years and beyond.
Mace and Turner & Townsend will lead the delivery consortium, working together with an extensive national supply chain, which includes HDR. Together, it will act as delivery partners for the NHP, guiding the programme, safeguarding the schedule and budgets, and creating a legacy with the NHS and Department of Health and Social Care for outstanding healthcare facility delivery long into the future.
“The Programme Delivery Partner appointment demonstrates the government’s commitment to delivering new hospitals and transforming the way that we deliver healthcare in England,” said Morag Stuart, NHS chief programme officer for the New Hospital Programme. “This additional, flexible capacity will enable us to build a sustainable and enduring capability. The New Hospital Programme, alongside the delivery partner, is ready to deliver at speed and at scale — for the benefit of patients and the NHS.”
The NHP will champion a programmatic approach to deliver hospitals at greater speed, value for money and safety. This will complement an industrialised construction methodology and utilising standardised designs and off-site manufacturing to unlock opportunities for small and medium suppliers across the country, while driving faster delivery of future-facing facilities that take advantage of modern clinical technologies.
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