questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many wave one schemes under the New Hospital Programme have begun construction.
answerText: Of the 16 schemes in Wave 1 of the New Hospital Programme (NHP), the Derriford Emergency Care Hospital commenced construction in October 2025. Poole Hospital and the remaining stages of Brighton 3Ts hospital (for the Sussex Cancer Centre) are in the pre-c...
heading: Hospitals: Construction