The New Hospital Programme (NHP) has announced the first proposed contractor allocations under its Hospital 2.0 Alliance (H2A) framework, with projects collectively valued at around £14bn progressing towards formal delivery agreements later this year.
The pairings form part of the government’s wider strategy to deliver new hospitals and healthcare infrastructure using a standardised construction model focused on repeatable design, modern methods of construction and long-term delivery partnerships.
The first wave of proposed allocations includes:
RAAC prioritised hospitals:
- Graham Construction: Airedale General Hospital
- Sacyr UK: Frimley Park Hospital
- Kier Construction: Hinchingbrooke Hospital
- Skanska: James Paget University Hospital
- Integrated Health Projects (VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine JV): Leighton Hospital
- Skanska: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn
- Willmott Dixon: Women and Children’s Hospital, Cornwall
Other Wave 1 hospitals:
- Dragados: West Suffolk Hospital
- Laing O’Rourke: Hillingdon Hospital
- Morgan Sindall Construction: Musgrove Park Hospital
- Bovis: North Manchester General Hospital
Several of the schemes are part of the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) replacement programme, which has been prioritised within the government’s revised hospital rebuilding timetable.
Frimley Park, Airedale, Queen Elizabeth King’s Lynn, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, James Paget, Leighton, and the Women and Children’s Hospital, Cornwall are among the hospitals identified as requiring replacement due to RAAC-related structural concerns.
The contractors named in the first wave of proposed hospital allocations are among the firms appointed earlier this year to the £37bn Hospital 2.0 Alliance framework.
Other firms had been shortlisted during the procurement process but were not included in the final group of contractors awarded places on the alliance.
The alliance framework is intended to support greater consistency in hospital design and delivery while improving efficiency across procurement, manufacturing and construction.
According to the NHP, the allocations were developed collaboratively between NHS trusts, programme teams and contractors to determine the most suitable delivery partnerships for each scheme.
Formal contracts are expected to be completed later this summer, subject to governance and commercial approvals.
Construction activity on several of the projects is expected to ramp up from 2027 onwards as the Hospital 2.0 model moves from framework mobilisation into full programme delivery.
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