The Department aims to build hospitals in the programme to a new, standardised hospital design called Hospital 2.0. It expects the new hospitals to be more efficient to operate, digitally-enabled and to provide each patient with their own single bedroom. The Hospital 2.0 design was originally due to be completed in December 2023 which proved unachievable.30 We asked the Department whether it was still on track to complete the Hospital 2.0 design by spring 2026 as reported by the NAO. It said that Hospital 2.0 would be fully assured and complete by summer 2026 and that the design had been available for trusts to use for some time to allow them to develop their business cases.31