{"id":127202,"date":"2023-05-26T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=127202"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:56:39","slug":"five-major-hospitals-to-be-rebuilt-as-part-of-20bn-new-hospital-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/projects\/five-major-hospitals-to-be-rebuilt-as-part-of-20bn-new-hospital-programme\/127202\/","title":{"rendered":"Five major hospitals to be rebuilt as part of \u00a320bn New Hospital Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Government has added five major hospitals to its \u00a320bn New Hospital Programme due to weak RAAC infrastructure, which could cause collapse<\/h2>\n<p>The Government is committed to rebuilding these five hospitals by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The five hospitals were built using RAAC, which is known to have a limited lifespan. The NHS has asked the Government to prioritise these buildings due to the risk that they pose to patients and staff.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a commitment to eradicate RAAC from the wider NHS estate by 2035, \u00a3685m has been allocated in immediate support.<\/p>\n<h3>The five hospitals prioritised under the New Hospital Programme are:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Airedale in West Yorkshire<\/li>\n<li>Queen Elizabeth King\u2019s Lynn in Norfolk<\/li>\n<li>Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire<\/li>\n<li>Mid Cheshire Leighton in Cheshire<\/li>\n<li>Frimley Park in Surrey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These five hospitals are part of the Government&#8217;s manifesto commitment to build 40 new hospitals by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Two hospitals in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/item-7-public-board-meeting-new-hospital-programme.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the New Hospital Programme<\/a> are already complete, and five are in construction. By the end of next year, more than 20 will be underway or complete.<\/p>\n<p>Health and Social Care secretary, Steve Barclay, said: \u201cThese five hospitals are in pressing need of repair and are being prioritised so patients and staff can benefit from major <a href=\"https:\/\/buildwarranty.co.uk\/our-clients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new hospital buildings<\/a>, equipped with the latest technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The New Hospital Programme so far<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two hospitals are now open to patients<\/strong> (Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Royal Liverpool Hospital)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Five further hospitals are under construction, including:<\/strong><br \/>\nMidland Metropolitan Hospital, Northgate Hospital, Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital, 3Ts Hospital &amp; Bath Cancer Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has added five major hospitals to its \u00a320bn New Hospital Programme due to weak RAAC infrastructure which could cause collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172731],"tags":[908,276,117605,996],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-projects","7":"tag-economy","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-hospital","10":"tag-nhs"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five major hospitals to be rebuilt as part of \u00a320bn New Hospital Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"These five hospitals are part of the Government&#039;s \u00a320n New Hospital Programme, which will build 40 new hospitals by 2030\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/projects\/five-major-hospitals-to-be-rebuilt-as-part-of-20bn-new-hospital-programme\/127202\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five major hospitals to be rebuilt as part of \u00a320bn New Hospital Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Government has added five major hospitals to its \u00a320bn New Hospital Programme due to weak RAAC infrastructure which could cause collapse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/projects\/five-major-hospitals-to-be-rebuilt-as-part-of-20bn-new-hospital-programme\/127202\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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