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 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 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.
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Community 1^st is proud to be a part of the LIFT council, the associate body representing 85% of LIFT public private partnership companies.

LIFT was a central Government initiative to bring the NHS and private sector together to deliver local health estate transformation and bring a range of healthcare services closer to communities in modern fit-for-purpose buildings.

Collectively the LIFT Council are celebrating 20 years of transforming NHS Estate.

Community 1^st is proud of our local partnerships and the local impact we have jointly delivered with the NHS over the years. We continue to work together with our partners to provide expert estate services to continue to adapt local health care premises to changing health service needs.

We are procurement cleared to provide any estate service in our local areas of operation and have worked on numerous capital works projects, including variations and essential back log maintenance works across our managed estate and the wider NHS estate over the years.

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Remodelling works at one of Sheffield’s health centres have enabled a GP practice to relocate into modern, fit-for-purpose facilities.

A refit of Darnall Primary Care Centre completed in April 2021, creating a new reception desk and additional admin rooms have enabled nearby York Road Surgery to relocate into larger, more modern premises, improving patient services presently inhibited by a lack of space.

The project was completed on behalf of Community 1^st Sheffield as the building owner and the head tenant, Community Health Partnerships.

Jon Keegan, General Manager of Community 1^st Sheffield, said: “Darnall Primary Care Centre was designed with flexibility in mind to enable the building to change in response to the needs of the local community. We are delighted that this project enables more local patients to access these excellent facilities.”

The building continued to provide services to registered patients throughout the works. The construction and property management teams appointed by Community 1^st worked effectively to minimise any operational disruption to the building. They completed the project 2 weeks ahead of schedule.

Community 1^st Sheffield has developed a total of seven primary care centres across the city for our local NHS and local authority partners. Community 1^st Sheffield has also undertaken many minor works and property adaptations to reflect the changing demands of Primary Care services in Sheffield. These include including the completion of variation works to Jordanthorpe Medical Centre.