New NHS funding announced for hospital improvements

The government has confirmed the allocation of GBP 760 million to help NHS hospitals to create new buildings, wards and beds.

A total of 40 NHS hospitals and community services will benefit from the Department of Health and Social Care funding, which represents the biggest investment of its kind in the NHS in more than a decade.

The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin sustainability and transformation partnership will receive GBP 300 million from this total to develop an emergency care site and a separate planned care site, offering 24-hour urgent care centres at both locations.

The remaining 39 projects will be smaller in scale, including GBP 6 million going towards service upgrades at eight Yorkshire trusts, GBP 8 million for a new health and wellbeing centre in Kent, and GBP 13 million for two new urgent care centres in Newton Abbot and Torquay, plus refurbishment of Torbay Hospital's emergency department.

Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "Further major projects are also under consideration across the country, and we intend to announce one large-scale scheme the size of the Shrewsbury and Telford plan every year going forward."

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