NHS trust leaders slam ‘delay, indecision and soaring costs’ on New Hospital Programme

By Daniel Gayne2024-05-15T12:30:00

Health leader claims on scheme has experienced 25% cost rises over three years

NHS trust leaders have hit out at the cost of delays to the government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP).

First announced by Boris Johnson in 2020, the NHP was meant to deliver 40 new hospitals in England by 2030, but the National Audit Office found last summer that the scheme was already behind schedule and would only complete 32 schemes in that time.

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