Winning firms confirmed for £37bn hospital framework

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Initiative known as the Hospital 2.0 Alliance will be used to build series of new hospitals over coming years

Ten firms have been formally confirmed as having won places on a £37bn hospital building framework.

Building revealed last week the names of the winning firms (see box below) and this morning the New Hospital Programme announced the successful bidders for the work known as the Hospital 2.0 Alliance.

A total of 16 firms made an initial shortlist last summer for the framework which will be used by NHS trusts to appoint so-called Alliance Partners responsible for the design, construction and handover of individual hospital projects.

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The government is planning a series of new build hospitals in a series of five year waves

The firms to miss out were Bam, Bouygues, Ferrovial, McLaren, Multiplex and Sisk.

Natalie Forrest, chief programme officer at the New Hospital Programme, said: “This is a defining moment for the New Hospital Programme and for healthcare construction in England.

“The Hospital 2.0 Alliance is about more than building hospitals – it is about transforming how we deliver them. By bringing together DHSC {Department for Health], NHS England, Trusts, and industry partners under a true alliance model, we are creating the conditions for faster delivery, better value and consistent quality at scale.”

Health minister Karin Smyth added: “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.”

Last 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.