The Department of Health and Social Care has added 13 more hospitals in England to the list of those that are confirmed to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
The cost estimate for replacing essential health security infrastructure has risen by more than 500% from £530m in 2015 to £3.2bn in 2023, according to a report from the National Audit Office.
Trust leaders set out five priorities for the next government in a report released by NHS Providers.
Wales’ final budget for 2024/25 revealed that the NHS will see a £40m increase in capital funding on the figure in the draft budget in December.
Some hospitals in the government’s new hospital programme may no longer be required to follow a standardised design.
Disrepair in NHS buildings led to thousands of potentially harmful incidents last year, according to a report by the BBC.
The NHS Confederation has published a report setting out what health and care leaders want the next government to prioritise in a general election year.
A near doubling in capital funding is needed to drive productivity in the health service, the NHS Confederation said this week.
The HFMA has backed plans to simplify the valuation of hospital buildings, but raised concern about the impact on trusts' financial positions.
The King's Fund has raised questions about the legacy of the private finance initiative, as the first of the 25 to 30-year contracts for the private sector to finance, design, build and maintain public assets such as hospitals come to an end.