Hospital of the future: the last word
Think tank: Re:State
Author(s): Rosie Beacon
November 24, 2025
This report from UK think tank Re:State distills the key themes and recommendations from across all three reports.
The past year, Re:State has been working on a landmark programme titled ‘Hospital of the Future’. This was predicated on the idea that the ‘upstream’ shift to prevention alone will not remediate the existential crisis hospitals are experiencing. The intention was to fundamentally rethink the hospital system as if it was being designed anew today, and to identify what would be needed from government to enable this transformation.
Following our final ‘Hospital of the Future’ report on patient flow – Ending the Patient Gridlock – last week, we are coming to the end of the programme. This has been a uniquely successful project, with one of our landmark recommendations from Hospital as a Service, Not a Building not only being adopted by Government, but also being announced in what is arguably the most significant political speech of the year.
To formally conclude the programme and make its findings more accessible, we have published a short final paper distilling the key themes and recommendations from across all three reports.
