Boris Johnson has claimed that 40 hospitals will be built by 2030 as part of a package worth £3.7 bn, with eight further new schemes invited to bid. The announcement came at this year’s Conservative Party conference.
The following trusts will share £2.7bn from the Treasury for building projects for completion by 2025:
The first six projects include extensions to existing hospitals, as well as new buildings on separate sites, and will not require the demolition of facilities to provide land for construction.
Some quarters were sceptical on the numbers, which when analysed show almost all the money earmarked will go to six NHS trusts, which each have a major hospital in need of rebuilding and have had plans waiting for approval. A further 21 trusts will get a small amount of seed-funding to “kick-start” their plans for the end of the next decade.
NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts, said the real cost of building 40 new hospitals would be more like £20bn.
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