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Posted on December 13, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories |
Express and Star | Sandwell PCT | 13 December 2009
Work on a £6.5 million health centre in the Black Country will begin next month, the Express & Star can reveal.
The new Glebefields Neighbourhood Health Centre in Tipton is set to transform an area once occupied by notorious council flats.
The building in St Marks Road will [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories |
Birmingham Mail | By Steve Bradley | Wolverhampton and Walsall NHS | 7 December 2009
MULTI-million pound plans are on the table to create a state-of-the-art health centre to help people in the Black Country with serious health problems.
The £5 million centre – on the site of a former public house in Heath Town – will [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories |
Management in Practice | NHS Doncaster | 2 November 2009
Doncaster’s biggest LIFT Centre received a royal seal of approval on Tuesday 20 October, when HRH The Duke of Kent visited a new £7m health centre in Edlington.
The duke officially opened the landmark Martinwells Centre, which is home to a range of NHS and Doncaster Council [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, Press/News Releases, Providers |
CHP website | accessed 26 October 2009
Community Health Partnerships (CHP) develops, creates investment in and helps deliver innovative ways to improve health and local authority services.
Its main activity has been to deliver the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Initiative which provides clean, modern, purpose-built premises for health and local authority services in England.
So far it [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories, Providers |
24dash.com | Published by Jocelyn Rowan for Baxi Group | 25 September 2009
Two DACHS mini-CHP units from Baxi SenerTec UK are providing heat and power for the new £5 million Southport Centre for Health and Wellbeing.
The units, each producing 12.5kW of heating and 5.5kW of electricity, are supplemented by a 750-litre buffer vessel and two exhaust flue [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories | Tags: ReSound Health |
The Herald Plymouth | 18 September 2009
PLYMPTON’S ‘Phoenix’ is set to rise from the ashes of last year’s great library blaze.
Plans for a new £5million library and health centre were given the go-ahead by members of the city’s planning committee yesterday.
The new complex, with a library, GP surgery and NHS clinic and health centre, could [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories, Providers | Tags: Galliford Try |
Contract Journal | By Neil Gerrard | 3 September 2009
Galliford Try has won several health contracts worth a total of £48.6m.
The three deals are:
Contracts for NHS Grampian under Framework Scotland to design and build three new healthcare centres worth a total of £22.3m in Forres, Moray and two Aberdeen based centres in Foresterhill and Whinhill.
Two [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories, Providers | Tags: Eric Wright Group, PFI |
Lancashire Telegraph | Catherine Pye | NHS Blackburn with Darwen | 13 August 2009
CONSTRUCTION work is set to start on Blackburn’s new health centre after £21million funding was arranged.
Building work will commence on the site near Alma Street off Barbara Castle Way in November.
The new facility, which is expected to be completed in September 2011, [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2009. Filed under: Journals, LIFT |
Health Service Journal | 12 August 2009
Researchers have claimed NHS primary care trusts could save thousands of pounds if they managed partnerships with the private sector better.
According to a study funded by the NHS service delivery and organisation programme and carried out by York Management School, local improvement finance trust (LIFT) schemes currently offer poor financial [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, Press/News Releases |
NHS Lambeth | Building for the future | accessed 31 July 2009
Akerman Road Health Centre rapid Health and Wellbeing Impact Assessment
As part of the planning work for the new Akerman road health centre, we commissioned Inukshuk consultants to carry out a rapid Health and Wellbeing Impact Assessment in Coldharbour ward in 2009.
The purpose was:
To identify [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under: Journals, LIFT |
Health Service Journal | BY SALLY GAINSBURY | 30 July 2009
The government-owned company established to promote private investment in primary care is in “disarray”, according to private sector contractors.
Community Health Partnerships, owned by the Department of Health, was set up to promote the local improvementfinance trust model to fund capital development in primary care.
The criticism comes after a [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories |
Oldham PCT | News | 16 July 2009
Two multi-million pound health developments are one step nearer to completion.
Plans for new health centres in Werneth and the Shaw and Crompton area of Oldham have now been submitted to Oldham Council for approval.
It is expected that a decision will be reached in early September, following a planning [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: Ashley House |
Berkshire East PCT | Press Releases | 24 July 2009
NHS Berkshire East has identified the company it wants to work with to develop detailed plans for the Bracknell ‘HealthSpace’.
Demands for a new health facility in the centre of Bracknell offering an extended range of health services was one of the key themes to emerge from [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, ISTC, LIFT, Reports/papers, Social enterprise | Tags: Out-of-hours, PBC, Provider-commissioner |
NHS Support Federation
Executive summary
• The government is carrying out the ‘patchwork privatisation’ of the NHS. For the first time, this report presents a comprehensive picture of the many kinds of privatisation occurring in the health service. It provides indisputable evidence that a process of privatisation is in train.
• This is happening on such a scale [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, Press/News Releases | Tags: Walk in centre |
Department of Health | Friday, 13 March 2009
The list of successful bidders for the Express LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) framework, which will reduce the time and cost in appointing LIFT partners for Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, has been published today by the Department of Health.
Currently around half of PCTs in England are [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories | Tags: Care UK, Out-of-hours, Super surgery, Walk in centre |
Cross Gates Today | Published Date: 04 February 2009 | Last Updated: 03 March 2009 7:34 AM
A long-awaited super surgery in east Leeds has finally opened, with bosses vowing to make it a success.
The doors to the new 365-days a year Shakespeare Medical Practice in Burmantofts opened on Monday, March 2, with the first patient being welcomed [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories | Tags: Super surgery |
Liverpool Echo | By Liza Williams | 1 April 2009
A £7m Merseyside “super surgery” is expected to be approved next week.
The new state of the art neighbourhood health centre – which incorporates several GP surgeries with services like dentistry and chiropody – is planned between North Parade and South Parade in Speke.
Plans, which are recommended [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories | Tags: Assura, Out-of-hours, Super surgery |
Basingstoke Gazette | NHS Hampshire | Wednesday 27th May 2009
A SUPER-SURGERY offering GP and dental service to unregistered patients 365 days a year is set to open in Basingstoke.
The new Hampshire Health Care Centre in the grounds of Basingstoke hospital, scheduled to open this autumn, is being commissioned to increase out-of-hours access and it will [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, LIFT, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: Fleet Healthcare, Super surgery, Walk in centre |
Gravensham Borough Council | West Kent PCT | 19 January 2009
People living in Gravesham are set to benefit from a brand new state-of-the-art super surgery, following an agreement at Gravesham Borough Council’s Cabinet meeting on Monday 12 January.
The council has agreed ‘in principle’ the sale of land in Vale Road, Northfleet, which, if a planning [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories | Tags: Super surgery |
News & Star | By Pamela McGowan Health reporter | Thursday, 21 May 2009
A group of west Cumbrian GPs have been selected to run an innovative new health centre which will be the first of its kind in England.
NHS Cumbria has agreed to build a £2 million ‘surgery with a difference’ on land at Birks [...]
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