Industry needs ‘Nightingale approach’ to achieve £20bn hospitals plan, programme chief says

By Tom Lowe2023-06-08T06:00:00

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Minister in charge of programme to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 says goal can only be achieved by “challenging current methods”

The government’s plan to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 will only succeed if the industry replicates the speed at which it built temporary covid-19 hospitals during the pandemic, the minister in charge of the programme has said.

Nick Markham urged the industry to adopt a “Nightingale Style” approach, referring to the collaboration between firms which saw the construction of the facilities within days during the first weeks of the pandemic in March and April 2020.

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