Hospital 2.0

The new hospital will enable the transformation of services for patients and the local community – it will significantly improve patient care, experience and outcomes within an ultra-modern environment for the benefit of patients, visitors and staff including:

• Cheaper and faster: Up to 17% more cost effective and up to 25% less time for later schemes against comparative contemporary completed schemes.
• Enhanced patient experience: Patient experience at the forefront, delivering high-quality care and addressing unique patient needs.
• Improved clinical care: Enabling new methods of clinical care, learning from the  pandemic and previous hospital builds to ensure our health infrastructure can adapt to changing health needs.
• Improved workforce wellbeing and efficiency: Ensuring new hospitals are great places to work, designed and operated to enhance employee wellbeing by supporting them to deliver the highest quality care.
• Latest digital technologies: Building on the national vision for digital care, harnessing digital transformation and using the latest technologies to benefit our people and patients.
• Green, sustainable hospitals: Promoting sustainability and ensuring our health  infrastructure is fit for the future, contributing to the net zero carbon vision across the NHS.
• Integration with communities: Integrating with local health and care systems and enhancing local communities and economies.
• Outcome: Driving productivity: The programmatic approach to renewing the NHS estate releases strategic benefits and wider cultural change.

A standard design will be used across all the new hospitals, including the design of wards and operating theatres. Reducing the variation in building designs improves efficiency and supports better care, as it helps colleagues work seamlessly across the whole site. This will particularly help teams like pharmacy, therapies teams and doctors who deliver care across different wards and departments.

The Hospital 2.0 development process has included consultations with patient, workforce and visitor groups, alongside in-house SMEs across all disciplines (clinical, digital, workforce and EFM), models of national best practice, models of international best practice, Royal Colleges, NHS England technical and safety Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). 

The consultations and research were iteratively developed through briefs, drawings, models and mock-ups to produce standard rooms, clusters, and ward development.

The new hospitals will have a focus on sustainability as part of the NHS ambition to reach net zero carbon footprint (the emissions directly controlled by the NHS) by 2040.

The hospitals will also help the NHS target for ‘Carbon Footprint Plus’ (the emissions that the NHS can influence) to reach net zero by 2045.

With MMC buildings, the majority of the build takes place off-site in factory-controlled conditions, before being transported to the hospital site. This speeds up the construction phase, and has other benefits such as greater predictability, quality, sustainability, cost-effectiveness and safety.

Embracing future technologies to ensure the systems and tools are in place to provide care in the most efficient environments.

The new hospital will create the conditions in which digital services such as medical equipment, patient records and handheld technologies can be optimised. We will also use smart building management systems to manage lighting, temperature, and air quality for the benefit of both patients and staff.