Scott Tacchi

Scott Tacchi joined Department of Health and Social Care in September 24, working in the Sponsor Team as Deputy Director Technical and Commercial Assurance.

Prior to this Scott spent a brief spell with Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) as Head of MMC / Industrialised Construction having moved their form the Department for Education (DfE) as Head of the ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ programme, the £3bn off site schools’ framework.

His focus is to drive productivity, and benefits such as time reduction, quality improvement, safety improvement and cost savings that can all be generated through the integration of of offsite construction and manufacture into 21st century delivery mechanisms.

Prior to joining in the DfE Scott spent 20 yrs. in Consultancy as Regional Director for PM & QS practices in the Southwest (Ridge, Mott MacDonald and Mace).

Session | The New Hospital Programme

The New Hospital Programme is the largest renewal of public infrastructure since the rebuild programmes that followed the 2nd World War. On the 20th Jan  2025 the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, launched the NHP Plan for Implementation. The NHP Plan for Implementation has provided a thorough, realistic and costed timetable for delivery ensuring the programme is on the soundest possible footing for delivery. The plan confirms that NHP will be backed by up to £15b of investment for each five -year spending period, averaging £3b a year by 2030 to be confirmed at Spending Reviews. Many of the schemes are here in the South West.

The programme business case (for which I drafted the commercial case) is fundamentally being driven through an Industrialised Construction approach and mandation. Standardisation of Area schedule, clinical delivery, building form, components and even down to standardising the Pre con methodology.

Clear and direct project management is key to delivery, to date there has been a detail plan of delivery by the NHP team supported by external consultancies. Some of that plan is identified below.

Ultimately the programme is about human benefits and life improvements.

I will discuss the NHP approach, how it differs from other programmes that might be well known to the audience, such as DfE and MoJ.