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<p>The National Health Service conducts regular surveys of its estate to assess the
state of the building fabric. These surveys cover a wide range of structural assessments.
With particular reference to reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), the National
Health Service has been surveying sites and undertaking RAAC mitigation work since
2019 and has had an active national remediation programme since 2021 to mitigate and
monitor the risks posed by RAAC across the NHS estate.</p><p>NHS England has also
issued guidance for trusts nationally on how to establish the presence of RAAC in
their estate. There is ongoing engagement with trusts on a national and regional level
to ensure RAAC is identified across the NHS estate. Where structural surveys identify
RAAC in their estate, trusts are inducted into the national remediation programme.</p>
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