Community 1st have been working with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to support the phased relocation of services into the Bodmin Community Diagnostic Centre.

Community 1st have led this project for the Trust, providing project management and managing subcontractor appointments, including Bluesky architects who provided a full design service on this project including healthcare planning.

Earlier phases completed in late 2022 and mid 2023, with Phase 1 providing a Community Diagnostic Centre and Phase 2 providing a co-located Minor Injury Unit.

Phase 3 of the new Bodmin Community Diagnostic Centre will see the second floor turned into a range of flexible treatment spaces and will deliver a new dexa scanner to fulfil the outstanding community diagnostic facilities. Completion of this phase will provide a wide range of clinical services including, MIU and diagnostic facilities CT, and MRI scanning.

The centre is easily accessible to the people of mid, north and east Cornwall, helping to deliver more care closer to home. It will relieve pressure on Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, University Hospital Plymouth as well as North Devon and Exeter Trusts. The aim is to get the right patients to the right test in the right location with the fewest number of visits and referrals, as quickly as possible. The centre will contribute to an overall reduction in waiting times, elective recovery and referral to treatment targets, and when fully operational, the centre will deliver an additional 120,000 diagnostic tests per year.

Socially responsible asset management – our carbon reduction commitments

 Across our healthcare assets, Community 1^st have been working with sustainability consultancy Positive Planet to provide an independent measurement of the carbon footprint of our estate.

Positive Planet measured the carbon emissions which Community 1st and our supply chain directly control and influence – the direct emissions relating to the built estate.

All the electricity supplied to our healthcare estate is from 100% renewable sources, so the only carbon emissions measured are those generated from electricity from the grid to the site.

This measurement provides us with a benchmark against which future improvements to our carbon efficiency can be measured.

We collate this data with quantitative data from BEMS and utility bills and deliver a six-monthly report demonstrating a reduction in energy consumption and operational cost savings. We also continue to engage with building users to assess any changes in attitudes towards carbon savings and to discover how any implemented measures have affected comfort levels and behaviour.

This provides a clear picture of the energy performance of the building over time and of the interactions with weather, occupancy, and operating schedules. Our reporting includes recommendations for additional actions to reduce carbon even further.

In the future, we hope to support our NHS partners to reduce emissions from activities indirectly related to our estate, wherever practicable. These include transport used by patients and staff, operational waste and purchased goods and services.

Get in touch with our expert estate management team to discuss how we can help improve your building sustainability and meet your carbon reduction targets.

T: 0161 831 9722
E: info@community1st.co.uk

Community 1st were appointed by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to project manage and appoint the full design team for the delivery of a phased project to create a critical new Community Diagnostic Centre to serve the patient population in North East Cornwall.

The new facility involves the refurbishment of the former Independent Sector Treatment Centre at Bodmin Hospital, which had been closed since 2017.

The design proposal required the redevelopment to be over 3 phases, with phase 1 now complete and officially open from the 9th of December 2022.

Phase 1 includes the creation of a radiography unit to include a CT scanner, X-Ray, and Ultrasound facilities, along with an external double diagnostic pad to enable mobile scanning units, such as MRI scanners, to link into the centre and provide maximum flexibility for other services to be delivered locally.

The Community 1st team employed and managed the contractors on behalf of the Trust for this phase and are now continuing to develop the design and construction works for the next phases of this development.

The future phases aim to introduce more community-based services into the facility over the next year.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust envisage the new diagnostic hub making a big impact to the East of Cornwall community, providing more much needed capacity for patients, and taking pressure away from the main Acute hospital sites.

The Diagnostic Hub will be open 7 days a week, 8am – 8pm.

You can find out more about the impact Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust hope this new facility will make here New East Cornwall Diagnostics Hub

Ken Jones, General Manager of Community 1st Cornwall said ‘Community 1st have been working closely with the Trust and other NHS parties across Cornwall since 2004, supporting much needed NHS estate improvements. This is a great project to be working with the Trust to deliver, re-purposing a redundant facility and bringing it back to life with the services that the local community need. Its great to see assets like this getting a new lease of life.’

Thomas Lilleyman from Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said ‘Community 1st have been excellent partners in supporting the design and delivery of this project and the finished product reflects the consistently high standards that they work to. This is a superb facility that will have meaningful benefits to the local community as well as relieve pressure on the Royal Cornwall, University Hospitals Plymouth and North Devon and Exeter trusts.’