Minister for Secondary Care (): Today the Department has
published the first New Hospital Programme (NHP) Annual Report,
covering the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
This report marks the first full year of delivery following the
Programme reset and the publication of a costed, phased delivery
plan through the NHP Plan for Implementation in January 2025. It
represents an important transition from recovery and
stabilisation to sustained delivery under a clearer and more
realistic framework.
The report sets out the progress made by the NHP during the last
financial year, at both programmatic and scheme level. Over the
reporting period, the programme has strengthened its governance
and assurance in response to scrutiny from the National Audit
Office (NAO) and Parliament.
It has made progress across hospital schemes in multiple waves,
and new delivery approaches have been implemented such as the
Hospital 2.0 standardised design model and the Hospital 2.0
Alliance commercial framework, aimed at improving efficiency,
increasing market capacity, and enabling faster delivery at
scale.
Each scheme within the NHP presents its own complex challenges.
Market capacity at all tiers continues to pose potential delivery
constraints. The launch of the Hospital 2.0 Alliance is an
important step in creating a commercial environment that protects
the supply chain and enables concurrent delivery of several large
hospital schemes.
Looking ahead to the 2026 to 2027 financial year, the NHP will
continue to progress schemes in line with the Plan for
Implementation. For Wave 1 schemes, focus will remain on business
case development and preparing sites for main construction. The
seven RAAC replacement schemes, while having been deemed safe to
remain open beyond 2030 with appropriate mitigations in place,
remain a priority and will continue to be a key focus for the
programme in the financial year 2026 to 2027.
Wave 2 schemes will focus on early works to support scheme
readiness and de-risk future delivery, and for schemes in Wave 3
there is focus on early pre-construction work to de-risk the
delivery of schemes where it is necessary to do so at this stage.
A copy of the report has been placed in the House of Commons
Library and is available on GOV.uk.
