SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT
ORIGINS OF THE NEW HOSPITAL PROGRAMME
A Labour Party review of the New Hospital Programme found that the previous government’ s commitment to deliver‘ 40 new hospitals’ by 2030 was behind schedule, unfunded and therefore undeliverable.
Wes Streeting, Health and Social Care Secretary, said:“ The New Hospital
Programme we inherited was unfunded and undeliverable. Not a single new hospital was built in the past five years and there was no credible funding plan to build 40 in the next five years.
“ When I walked into the Department of Health and Social Care, I was told that the funding for the New Hospital Programme runs out in March. We were determined to put the programme on a firm footing, so we can build the new hospitals our NHS needs.
“ Today we are setting out an honest, funded and deliverable programme to rebuild our NHS.”
102 August 2025