NHS: Buildings
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of (a) hospital, (b) specialist centre and (c) other NHS buildings.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future, providing high-quality health and social care for those in need. This means providing strategic, value for money investments into capital schemes that improve the quality of hospitals, specialist centres, and other NHS buildings.
Integrated care boards and trusts have been allocated £4.2 billion this year to prioritise for local capital schemes that maintain and improve their NHS estate. An additional £3.9 billion is being provided through national programmes that aim to modernise and transform the NHS estate, facilitating digital improvements, and providing funding for new urgent care centres and mental health facilities. Decisions regarding future investment in the NHS are subject to the upcoming Spending Review, where the short and long-term needs of the NHS estate will be assessed.
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