Today, on World FM Day, we recognise the vital role of facilities management in keeping essential services running smoothly.

As a long-term NHS partner, we manage over 1 million sq. ft of primary care estate, delivering 24/7 facilities management services to ensure safe, efficient, and high-performing healthcare environments.

On this World Facilities Management Day, we reflect on this year’s theme, ‘Cultivating Belonging Through Built Environments’, highlighting the critical role that our well-managed spaces play in fostering connection, comfort, and community.

With the support of our facilities management partner, Blue Support Services, we continue to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and readiness for the challenges ahead.

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… It starts with using the existing estate better.

The national NHC framework is clear: start with repurposing and optimising what is already there and works well locally.

Across Oldham, Sheffield and Cornwall, LIFT buildings are already enabling integrated, neighbourhood based care. These modern, accessible spaces bring primary care, community, and wider services together.

As systems develop their NHC pipelines, the opportunity is to move faster, deliver better value and support integrated teams by making full use of the existing estate.

Neighbourhood Health is an operating model, not a building programme.

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Community 1st Cornwall is proud to announce that the St Mary’s Hospital Extension on the Isles of Scilly has won the Structural Award from the Devon & Cornwall Concrete Society recognising excellence in structural design, technical innovation, and construction quality.

The project stood out in the Structural category thanks to its innovative use of offsite‑manufactured precast concrete, which enabled a highly coordinated build despite the challenges of working 27 miles offshore. This approach ensured structural precision, improved quality control, and significantly reduced on‑island disruption during construction.

A big thank you to our project partners for their exceptional collaboration and expertise:

• Bluesky Architects – Architects and Lead Designer
• Cornish Concrete Products – Precast Supplier
• Teignmouth Maritime Services – Contractor
• MBA Consulting – Structural Engineers

Well done to everyone involved, this award reflects outstanding teamwork in a truly unique setting.

We’re excited to share that our appointed architects Bluesky Architects and modular solutions partner Premier Modular, in collaboration have been shortlisted for the MMC 2026 Awards in the Healthcare Project of the Year (Secondary) category for the Isles of Scilly Hospital project.

As the appointed project delivery partner for this scheme by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, we needed a team that would be up for the design and logistical challenges of this project.

This project presented unique design and logistical challenges to ship 29 modular units to the remote St Marys island. Collaborative design and teamwork between Bluesky, Premier Modular and the wider design team, ensured the seamless integration of the modular solution with the existing hospital building which has provided new inpatient wards, outpatient services, and care home facilities (12 ensuite bedrooms and support space).

We are delighted the team have been shortlisted for this award. Its is a project that will make a lasting impact on the Isles of Scilly communities.

Community 1st is proud to support the transformation of health and social care on the Isles of Scilly with the opening of the new Isles of Scilly Hospital Wing and a pioneering integrated model of care.

This state-of-the-art facility, opened in July on St Mary’s, is more than just a building, it’s a partnership between NHS, social care, and community teams delivering more care closer to home. Services like Hospital at Home, expanded diagnostics, remote consultations, and mental health support are improving access and outcomes for island residents.

Early results show a nearly 30% drop in emergency medevac fly-offs to the mainland, proving the power of community-focused care.

Ken Jones, General Manager at Community 1st, said: “We’re proud to play our part in this project and to work alongside our NHS and Social Care partners and local teams to support their vision for a new neighbourhood model of care.”

With the new care home wing opening soon, the Isles of Scilly Health and Care Partnership is leading the way in integrated, digitally enabled community care.