All New hospitals programme articles – Page 5
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NewsMinister wants to ‘inject private capital’ to upgrade NHS buildings
A health minister has indicated he wants to use private finance to help ‘stretch capital budgets as far as possible’ for the NHS estate.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Podcast: The RAAC scandal and what it means for the NHS
NHS trusts have been told by the government to carry out urgent risk assessments if they have a certain type of lightweight concrete in their buildings.
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NewsCrumbling estate impacting patient care ‘day in, day out’, NHSE boss tells MPs
NHS England’s finance boss says patient treatment areas are being closed “all the time” due to crumbling estates, fire risks and flooding.
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NewsHospital whose rebuild was dropped faces ‘enforced closure’ risk
A trust that was inexplicably removed from the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme, despite being a top regional priority for capital funding, has been testing contingency plans for a ‘full or partial site closure’ due to problems with its main site.
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NewsConsultancy firm run by minister’s ex-colleague given part-time NHP contract
A small consulting firm run by a health minister’s former colleague has been given a critical advisory role on the New Hospitals Programme, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Hancock denies political motive for inclusion of ‘Red Wall’ project in new hospital programme
A building project in a marginal constituency was added to the government’s ‘40 new hospitals’ programme despite not being on the longlist of schemes proposed by NHS England.
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NewsSeven trusts inexplicably removed from ‘40 new hospitals’ pledge
Seven trusts were removed from a list used to choose the ‘40 new hospitals’ with no documentation to explain why, a watchdog has found.
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HSJ LocalFirst-time CEO picked by trust
North West Anglia Foundation Trust has recruited Mid and South Essex FT’s acting chief executive as its new permanent CEO.
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NewsBarclay: I’m fighting doctors’ pay demands for the sake of NHS staff
The government is resisting what it believes are inflationary pay demands from junior doctors for the sake of NHS staff, health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has told HSJ.
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NewsTwo consultancies received over £20m each from new hospitals programme
The bulk of consultancy spending by the government’s new hospitals programme has so far gone on two firms, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE boss calls for big rise in capital spending
The health service needs a significant increase in capital spending to bring it into line with advanced economies, NHS England’s head of estates has said.
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NewsNHS not ministers should decide future ‘new hospitals’, says DHSC chief
A permanent change in approach is needed for deciding which hospitals are built and when, and should be led by the NHS not politicians, the government’s ‘new hospitals programme’ boss has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalRebuilding DGH will now cost ‘more than £600m’, says chief
The forecast cost for a small acute trust’s new hospital has increased from a previous estimate of £600m, its chief executive has told HSJ, as inflation piles pressure on the government’s New Hospitals Programme.
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News‘Discrimination’ claim as ‘40 new hospitals’ snubs mental health
A chief executive has compared a lack of investment into mental health estate to ‘institutionalised discrimination’, after no new schemes were accepted on to the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The good, the bad, and the overlooked
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The fate of ‘40 new hospitals’
After seemingly endless delays, the fate of the ‘40 new hospitals’ has finally been revealed by the government.
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NewsWhat’s changed in the ‘new hospitals’ programme?
HSJ has mapped and charted how the projects in the new hospitals programme have changed following government’s announcement today.
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NewsTrust refuses to wait for hospital rebuild
Waiting until 2030 to start redeveloping its hospital would be ‘hugely damaging’, a leading trust’s chief executive has said, after it was identified as one of eight schemes which will not be funded before that date by the government’s new hospitals programme.
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NewsRevealed: Eight ‘new hospitals’ delayed until next decade
The government’s flagship ‘new hospitals programme’ is set to receive around £10bn less than was requested by 2030, with eight schemes being pushed back into the next decade.
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NewsLabour would delay and review capital projects, says Starmer
More capital delays to key NHS projects could be on the horizon under a Labour government, it has emerged, as Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his plan for the health service.