​Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, pictured above

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Our Prime Minster, Boris Johnson, has officially given the green light to the construction of 20 brand new NHS buildings and expansions. This budget boost is set to cost £850 million and involves upgrading old buildings, new wards, diagnostic centres, and intensive care units. Johnson has stated that this is part “of a programme that the NHS asked for” and he is happy to be delivering on it.

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The project is going towards to the following NHS trusts and what they’ll be planning to do with the money:

• Leeds Teaching Hospitals - £12m will be spent on providing a single laboratory information management system across West Yorkshire and Harrogate, to cover all pathology disciplines.

• Croydon Health Services - £12.7m will be spent on improving and refurbishing critical care units at Croydon University Hospital.

• Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care - £16.3m will be spent on emergency and urgent care facilities at the Tameside General Hospital.

• Barking, Havering and Redbridge CCGs and North East London - £17m will be spent on building a new health and well-being centre in North East London.

• University Hospitals of North Midlands - £17.6m will be spent on three new modern wards that’ll improve capacity in Stoke and deliver around 84 beds for this coming winter.

• Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group - £18m will be spent on improving access through the urgent treatment centre, this should help improve patient flow.

• United Lincolnshire Hospitals - £21.3m will be spent on developing urgent and emergency care zones in A&E.

• Wye Valley - £23.6m will be spent on providing new hospital wards in Hereford, this’ll make for 72 new beds.

• South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group - £25.2m will be spent on improving primary care in South Norfolk.

• Stockport - £30.6m will be spent to set up a new emergency care campus at Stepping Hill Hospital, this’ll incorporate an urgent treatment centre, planned investigation unit, and GP assessment.

• Mersey Care - £33m will be spent on providing new 40-bed low secure unit for learning disability patients.

• Norfolk and Suffolk - £40m will be spent on providing 80 beds in Norwich by building 4 new hospital wards.

• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals - £41.7m will be spent on improving paediatric cardiac services in the North East.

• Isle of Wight - £48m will be spent on redesigning acute services for residents in Isle of Wight.

• South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System - £57.5m will be spent on investing into primary care across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw.

• Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals - £69.7m will be spent on providing diagnostic and assessment centres in Norwich, Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn for cancer and non-cancerous disease.

• Greater Manchester Mental Health - £72.3m will be spent on building a new adult mental health inpatient unit.

• University Hospitals Birmingham - £97.1m will be spent on a new purpose-built hospital facility this will be replacing the old out of date outpatient, treatment and diagnostic accommodation.

• Luton & Dunstable University Hospital - £99.5m will be spent on a new block in Luton that provides critical and intensive care, as well as a delivery suite and operating theatres.

• Royal Cornwall Hospitals - £99.9m will be spent on building a new women and children’s hospital in Truro.

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All of this will help the UK, even the areas that aren’t specifically getting included in the list; through taking less stress of the other trusts and creating more space within the trusts being upgraded.
Overall very exciting news for the NHS, I am personally looking forward to seeing these plans developed.