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Community 1st Cornwall are pleased to be providing Project Management to assist the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust with this important project.

A ground breaking ceremony has been held to mark the start of work on a new state-of-the-art elective surgical hub in Cornwall.

The £15 million modular build will be located in the grounds of St Austell Community Hospital. Once in place, it is set to deliver around 5,000 day surgery procedures a year.

The hub will have 2 theatres, 4 recovery bays and 6 pre-op assessment rooms. It will also have a reception and waiting areas.

Find out more about the Surgical Hub here:

Ground breaking for new elective surgical hub in Cornwall

 

 

 

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.

Community 1st are delighted to see Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Minor Injury team move into their new premises at the Bodmin Community Diagnostic Centre.

This sees the completion of Phase 2 at this site, which co-locates the Minor Injury Unit alongside the Community Diagnostic Centre (Phase 1), which opened in December 2022. Bringing together these services provides the MIU team with fit for purpose accommodation and easier access to a wider range of diagnostic tests such as U/S and CT scanning.

Having provided the project management and full design services on this project, Community 1st and Bluesky Architects are proud to have worked alongside Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust to see the positive impact this new facility is having for the local community and the staff working here.

Looking forward to completion of Phase 3!

Read the full story: https://www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/new-bodmin-hospital-nhs-minor-injury-unit-officially-opened-629828

 

Socially responsible asset management – our carbon reduction commitments

 Across our healthcare assets, Community 1st 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

We are an established long-term partner to the NHS. Our expert estate team deliver 24/7 facilities management services across 1 million sq. ft of primary care estate occupied by the NHS.

This year’s World FM Day theme is ‘Making a Real Difference.

We continue to work with our NHS partners to help make a difference and reduce the carbon footprint of these assets to help the NHS meet its carbon reduction targets.

Our facilities management partner, Blue Support Services, provide full energy performance assessments and Energy Performance Certificate or Display Energy Certificate ratings.

Need Help to go greener?

Find out more here: https://bluesupportservices.co.uk/services/

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At Community 1st, we are committed to improving the energy efficiency of our estate.

We recently commissioned new, detailed Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for each of our 18 health centres to have a baseline position against which we can measure future improvements.

All our buildings are achieving EPC ‘C’ or above. This means Community 1st is already meeting the NHS 2025 target for its occupied estate. The vast majority of our buildings are best in class for energy efficiency.

We won’t stop there. We are now exploring the route to an EPC ‘A’ grade for each of our buildings, planning projects that will reduce carbon consumption throughout our estate.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone here at Community 1st!

We look forward to working with partners old and new in 2023.

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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.’

We are an established long-term partner to the NHS, and we work together with our local NHS partners to deliver expert estate services including 24/7 sustainable facilities management services to the highest standard.

We are procurement cleared to provide a wide range of estate services to our local areas of operation. Our Facilities Management partner Blue Support Services provide 24/7 reactive and pre-planned maintenance and all statutory compliance services across our managed health estate.

Find out more about Blue Support Services estate management services here: bluesupportservices.co.uk

We continue to work closely with our NHS partners to support estate improvements. Our supply chain provide expert estate solutions that meet the challenges faced by our partners when it comes to adapting their local health care estate needs.

One of the capital works projects we have completed recently, on behalf of Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust using our trusted supply chain Blue Support Services includes security and electrical works at Sowenna Community Hospital in Bodmin.

Community 1st is proud of our local partnerships and the local impact we have jointly delivered with the NHS over the years.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Healthcare Infrastructure met on the 16th March. The session focused on the Refresh of the Health Infrastructure Strategy (HIP).

Various speakers discussed the need for wider strategic planning and a focus on the needs for a detailed workforce recruitment and retention plan.

You can view the full APPG meeting here: https://lnkd.in/dE5dus6b

You can follow the APPG Health Infrastructure on Twitter https://twitter.com/appghealthinfra

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Healthcare Infrastructure met on the 18th January to discuss, “How the NHS Estate can support communities during COVID-19”.

Kate Edwards, Community 1st Health Development Director, was invited to speak at the meeting to update the APPG on “LIFT response to the Covid-19 Pandemic”. Kate informed the APPG on how the COVID 19 pandemic highlighted the need for a primary care estate that could deliver a wide range of clinical and community services, efficiently and, at pace.

The Community 1st LIFT Estate has an inherently flexible design, resulting in numerous adaptations that were achieved quickly allowing the facilities to respond to immediate changes in service demand during the Covid 19 pandemic.

Summary of Community 1st list of adaptations in response to Covid 19 Pandemic across Community 1st Oldham, Cornwall and Sheffield:

  • COVID 19 testing stations were created at the Integrated Care Centre in Oldham, Wincobank Medical Centre, and The Flowers Medical Centre in Sheffield
  • Creation and installation of Infection, Prevention and Control pathfinder project at Integrated Care Centre in Oldham to deliver zero pathogen environments. Allowing facilities to maintain ‘business as usual’ service delivery in high risk infection areas without additional burdens on staff or reduced clinical capacity (supported by LumiBio)
  • Interim drive through assessment centre for chronic illness at Truro Health Park in order to safely see chronically ill patients who rely on the NHS every day
  • Installation of protective screens for reception throughout the Community 1st estate
  • Extending opening hours
  • Helpdesk protocol altered to prioritise Covid 19 considerations
  • Property Manager rota revised to ensure 2 x managers on call at all times

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Healthcare Infrastructure is a cross-party forum that seeks to highlight the importance of the physical infrastructure of health and social care and how high-quality health infrastructure is essential to the delivery of high-quality healthcare to patients. The APPG for Healthcare infrastructure is a cross-party group of parliamentarians and is not an official body of the UK Parliament.

Community 1st private sector partner is proud to be a Group Sponsor of the APPG for Healthcare Infrastructure.

Link attached to view the full APPG Healthcare Infrastructure meeting on “How the NHS Estate can support communities during COVID-19” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq22OU0ttipyw3cfcsjyNUw/featured

You can follow the APPG Health Infrastructure on Twitter https://twitter.com/appghealthinfra

To find out more about how we can help your estate please contact the Team.
T: 0161 831 9722
E: info@community1st.co.uk
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