Summary: We are building 40 hospitals as part of the largest hospital building programme in a generation.
- We believe our health service deserves quality infrastructure. That is why we are announcing a new Health Infrastructure Plan, which will deliver a long-term, rolling five-year programme of investment in NHS infrastructure.
- The Health Infrastructure Plan is a new, strategic approach to improving our hospitals and health infrastructure over the long term. We are committing to building 40 new hospitals from 27 projects, across more than two dozen counties in England.
- The NHS is vitally important to all of us. This investment will ensure our hospitals are fit for purpose for both staff and patients on the front line.
Background
- Previously, the approach to improving NHS infrastructure has been piecemeal and lacked strategic direction. Our Health Infrastructure Plan will lay the foundations for a new, strategic, multi-year programme of much-needed major hospital replacement.
Our solution
- We are funding 6 brand new hospitals, plus the seed funding as a commitment in principle for another 21 schemes (totalling 34 hospitals) in the pipeline to progress their projects, with opportunities for other schemes to bid for in the future.
Conservative record
- We have confirmed our commitment to deliver the biggest cash boost ever for the NHS. Last year, we announced a record funding settlement of £33.9 billion more a year by 2023-24 for the NHS, with an additional £6.2 billion increase this year - the largest, longest cash settlement for the NHS in history.61
- We are investing more money in NHS frontline services. In August, we announced £1.8 billion in new capital funding. £850 million for 20 hospital upgrades and £1 billion to tackle critical infrastructure backlog across the country, emergency capital funding requests and more.
Q: Is this new money?
Yes. It is new money committed by the Treasury, made possible thanks to the hard work of the British people and to this country’s strong economic performance, we are investing more money in our vital NHS.
