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

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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.

You can read more here about our extensive service offer: https://community1st.co.uk/about-community-1st/#top

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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.

Our UK Helpdesk Team based in Oldham, provide 24/7 all year-round support for our health care estate, coordinating every job undertaken across the health care estate from the initial call to the resolution of the issue.

Our friendly and professional Helpdesk team know our estate and tenants and provide support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week working in partnership with our Property and Facility Management teams to ensure the smooth running of our managed healthcare estate in Oldham, Sheffield and Cornwall.

Find out more about our partnering services here: https://community1st.co.uk/partnering-services/

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One of Sheffield’s distinguished health centres is being remodelled to accommodate a relocated GP surgery.

In March 2021 variation works at Darnall Medical Centre will create a new reception desk and additional admin rooms to allow nearby York Road surgery to relocate into these modern, fit-for-purpose facilities. The works are being completed by Community 1st Sheffield as the building owner on behalf of Head Tenant, Community Health Partnerships.

The construction and property management teams appointed by Community 1^st have adapted the way they work to ensure safe Covid-19 working systems during the pandemic. They will be working hard to minimise any disruption to staff and patients.

Community 1st Sheffield has developed seven Primary Care centres across the city for our local NHS partners. In addition, Community 1st Sheffield have also undertaken a considerable number of minor works and property adaptations to reflect the changing demands of Primary Care Services across Sheffield, including the recent completion of variation works to Jordanthorpe Medical Centre, Sheffield.

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The NHS backlog maintenance bill has risen to over £9 billion, an increase of nearly 40% on the previous year’s costs, according to recently released figures from NHS Digital.

Backlog maintenance is measured by how much would need to be invested to restore a building to an optimum levels. It does not include planned maintenance work. You can read more here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2021/01/nhs-estate-backlog-grows-again.

Across Community 1st’s managed health estate our estate management, facilities and constructions teams have continued through these last ten months with adapted measures to work safely with Covid-19 to provide essential pre-planned maintenance and reactive support to our NHS occupied facilities. This has included completing capital works projects to integrate more primary care services into our centres, and undertaking planned backlog maintenance.

We work closely with our NHS partners to support estate improvement works and have, over the 15 years of our close partnership, managed a wide range of backlog maintenance programmes across Oldham, Sheffield and Cornwall on behalf of local NHS estate teams.

These works have ranged from statutory compliance and estate condition audits to boiler replacements, minor refurbishment works of GP and clinical spaces, window and roof replacements, and large full-scale total refurbishment projects.

Our local skilled teams are available to support our NHS estate partners tackle these increasing challenges and get programmed essential estate works back on track. As Community 1st is already a procured local partner, we can be easily directly appointed.

Contact our team to discuss any backlog maintenance requirements.