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The government has published a new timetable to deliver the New Hospital Programme, with some projects now pushed back beyond 2037 (see full list below).

Health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday described the new timetable as 鈥渉onest, realistic [and] deliverable鈥� in contrast to Boris Johnson鈥檚 original pledge to build 40 hospitals by 2030 which Streeting said was built on the 鈥渟haky foundation of false hope鈥�.

Under the plan, which will see 46 hospitals built or refurbished, projects will be delivered and funded in five-year 鈥渨aves鈥�, with 拢15bn allocated for each wave.

A total of 21 schemes have already been approved. Of these, 14 are either open to patients, in construction or have had their main build full business case approved, while a further seven will replace RAAC hospitals, which are deemed more urgent due to safety risks.

Of the 25 remaining, seven schemes are due to start construction in the upcoming wave of construction (2025 to 2030).

A total of nine 鈥漺ave two鈥� schemes will start between 2030 and 2035 and a further nine 鈥漺ave three鈥� schemes between 2035 and 2039, with five of these not expected to start until 2037.

Streeting said: 鈥淭he New Hospital Programme we inherited was unfunded and undeliverable. Not a single new hospital was built in the past five years, and there was no credible funding plan to build forty in the next five years.鈥�

He added: 鈥漌orking closely with colleagues in HM Treasury,we have secured five-year waves of investment, ensuring that there is always a balanced portfolio of hospital schemes at different development stages being delivered now and into the future.

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鈥淭his is the most efficient and cost-effective way of giving our NHS the buildings it needs, giving the construction sector the certainty it needs to deliver.鈥�

The hospitals are being delivered using a standardised design, known as Hospital 2.0.

The government said: 鈥淎 hospital built through Hospital 2.0 principles will use sustainable and modern methods of construction designed for manufacturing assembly to accelerate the building process.鈥�

Revised NHP Timetable