CEO, Wendy Farrington-Chadd, said: “The Government’s mission to deliver Neighbourhood Health Services as set out in its 10 Year Health Plan speaks to the heart of CHP’s purpose and the LIFT model. Through partnership working and unlocking infrastructure solutions across the LIFT estate, we are already supporting the transformation of neighbourhood care, as highlighted in many great examples in this publication. This is providing better environments for NHS staff to deliver excellent quality care, resulting in improved patient outcomes and experiences.
“To deliver Neighbourhood Health Centres in every community the 10 Year Health Plan sets out the need to make better use of the existing estate. We have shown through strategic capital investments how to adapt and repurpose space, and we can drive productivity and value from existing community-based assets, supporting the shift of care closer to home and the implementation of neighbourhood care.”
Transforming Neighbourhood Health highlights real examples where CHP has enabled neighbourhood health services and care closer to home. These include:
- East Birmingham Locality Hub at Washwood Heath Health and Wellbeing Centre, has seen A&E attendances fall by over 30% in the last year among targeted patients, and hospital stay length fall by 14%.
- The opening of a Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) at Eltham Community Hospital provides 94,000 additional diagnostic appointments per year, including 10,000 MRI and CT scans, and 28,000 phlebotomy tests.
- Over 500,000 additional diagnostic tests, checks, and scans, delivered through investment in CDCs and services since 2021.
CHP manages 308 community-based health buildings, providing around 900,000 m2 gross internal area (GIA) of space, and the clinical capacity to deliver over 100 million patient appointments per year.