Infrastructure That Delivers Reform: How Community 1st’s Buildings Support the NHS 10-Year Plan
The NHS’s new 10-year plan sets a bold direction: care that is local, preventative, integrated, and less reliant on hospitals.
Delivering on that vision takes more than policy. It takes the right infrastructure, built in the right places, through true partnership.
At Community 1st, we’re working closely with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), local NHS providers, and primary care networks across Oldham, Sheffield, and Cornwall to help enable this transformation via the long-term partnership ‘LIFT’ model.
Through our 19 modern, flexible health centres, we’re already providing:
- Integrated clinical and community space – supporting collaboration between GPs, mental health, diagnostics, and social care
- Flexible infrastructure – adaptable layouts that evolve with new models of care, digital access, and mobile teams
- Sustainable estates management – reducing the operational burden on the NHS with long-term support and no backlog maintenance
Whether it’s co-designing new spaces with neighbourhood teams, enabling out-of-hospital pathways, or providing estates solutions that support service reconfiguration, we’re proud to be a local long-term delivery partner— helping to turn NHS ambitions into effective, on-the-ground improvements.
We previously explored the Power of Partnerships and how the LIFT model can support the NHS 10-year plan, read here.
While the Government explores what a new PPP model might look like, the LIFT model remains active and, as Community 1st has demonstrated, continues to operate successfully.
It demonstrates how a well-managed partnership between the private and public sectors can provide long-term ‘Core’ assets to the NHS, free from backlog maintenance issues, with spaces that adapt and evolve over time.
Because delivering the NHS’s future requires buildings—and partnerships—that are practical, responsive, and built to last.
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