Midland Metropolitan Hospital handed share of multi-billion pound fund

The Prime Minister today confirmed £3.7 billion for 40 hospitals, including five across the Midlands.

The new Midland Metropolitan hospital, which is currently under construction, will bring together urgent care services from three hospitals across the region into one site.

It is not known how much of the cash the hospital will receive.

The Health Infrastructure Plan launched last September with a £2.8 billion investment that gave six new hospitals the funding to go ahead, alongside seed funding for trusts to work up business cases.

The trusts that received seed funding will now all be fully funded to deliver 25 new hospitals.

Other new schemes will be invited to bid for funding for eight more new hospitals - a proportion of these will be mental health hospitals.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “The dedication and tireless efforts of our nurses, doctors and all healthcare workers have kept the NHS open throughout this pandemic. But no matter what this virus throws at us we are determined to build back better and deliver the biggest hospital building programme in a generation.

“From Morpeth to Milton Keynes, we are building 40 new hospitals across England to level up our NHS so more people have top-class healthcare services in their local area.”

Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: “We protected the NHS through the peak of Coronavirus. Today we recommit to protect the NHS for years to come with the 40 new hospitals we will build over the next decade, including five in the Midlands alone.

“I love the NHS and I will do all I can to make sure it is there for you and your family over the years to come. The biggest hospital building programme in a generation will help protect the NHS long into the future.”