NAO report highlights delays and need for ‘greater transparency’ on New Hospital Programme
As of 2021-22, the NAO says 43% of the NHS estate was built pre-1985, and the maintenance backlog was £10.2 billion. Its report says that ‘seven entire hospitals are structurally unsound and in need of urgent replacement owing to the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)’, while surveys have found 41 buildings at 23