Winners on £37bn new hospital framework due by end of year

Winners on the government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) are expected to emerge by the end of the year.

In all, 16 firms were shortlisted for the work earlier this summer to compete for places on a £37bn framework to deliver hospital schemes across England between 2025 and 2040.

The framework will be used by NHS trusts to appoint so-called Alliance Partners responsible for the design, construction and handover of individual hospital projects.

It is understood the final number of firms appointed to the framework will be 11.

In January, the government published a new timetable to deliver the NHP with some projects now pushed back beyond 2037.

At the time, health secretary Wes Streeting described the new timetable as “honest, realistic [and] deliverable” in contrast to Boris Johnson’s original pledge to build 40 hospitals by 2030 which Streeting said was built on the “shaky foundation of false hope”.

Under the plan, which will see 46 hospitals built or refurbished, projects will be delivered and funded in five-year “waves”, with £15bn allocated for each wave.