LIFT

NHS LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) is a vehicle for improving and developing frontline primary and community care facilities. It allows PCTs to invest in new premises in new locations and provides patients with modern integrated health services in high quality purpose built premises. P+HS has worked successfully with several partners to win LIFT Contracts and are currently carrying out work with Community Solutions for Primary Care for Barnsley LIFT and Doncaster LIFT, as well as with the developer Accent for Tees Valley and South Durham LIFT, making P+HS one of the most successful architects in LIFT.

Tees Valley and South Durham LIFT
Richardson Community Hospital: a new £10m project commissioned by County Durham PCT. The hospital replaces the previous building on the adjacent site, and provides a range of inpatient services with 48 beds, together with outpatients, rehabilitation, therapy, day-care and palliative care services.
Seaham: the development of a new Primary Care Centre as part of the regeneration strategy for St John’s Square. New facilities will include GP accommodation, a modern ‘Walk-in, Therapy and Treatment Centre’ for services including minor injuries, X-ray and dentistry. The scheme also includes an on-site pharmacy.
Barnsley LIFT
Development of new facilities geared around the regeneration of the communities of Hoyland, and Athersley, to include the provision of new GP facilities and associated PCT services, and community services are currently underway.
Doncaster LIFT
Vermuyden centre, Thorne. An Integrated Primary Care Centre, completed in October 2006, has an extensive range of GP and Community Health services as well as a local authority provided library service, the centre acts as a focal point to bring the local community together.
A new Health Centre for Conisborough to be identified as a neighbourhood centre and will accommodate GP and council services in one building.