A new strategic partnership between Community Health Partnerships and the NHS Confederation will support system leaders to utilise and repurpose their existing estates for neighbourhood health.
New Strategic Partnership between CHP and the NHS Confederation
Community Health Partnerships (CHP) and the NHS Confederation have announced a new programme of work designed to help accelerate the development of neighbourhood health centres across England in line with the 10-Year Health Plan, through better use of community infrastructure.
The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The NHS Confederation promote collaboration and partnership working as the key to improving population health, delivering high-quality care and reducing health inequalities.
Together, we will convene NHS Confederation members to explore successful examples of neighbourhood health centres already operating in communities. The programme will also address the commissioning and contracting barriers that often prevent co-location and shared use of space, and develop practical recommendations for strategic commissioners, NHS trusts, primary care, local government, and the voluntary sector.
A policy report based on member engagement is expected in the next few months.
The concept of neighbourhood health centres speaks to the purpose of LIFT and we are enabling the transformation of healthcare services through better use of existing assets. This will drive productivity and value for the NHS. Our partnership with the NHS Confederation will enable us to share key insight and real examples from our work to support the delivery of neighbourhood care at pace.
There is a real challenge around primary and community estates in this country that we must solve if the government’s ambitions to co-locate both NHS and other local services in Neighbourhood Health Centres is to become a reality. Through our partnership with CHP we will work with members to confront the challenges and find new ways of working to deliver the changes needed to enable better use of community infrastructure to deliver care closer to home.
Community Health Partnerships (CHP) has published Transforming Neighbourhood Health, a report into how its place-based estate, developed via LIFT Public Private Partnerships, is already enabling the delivery of neighbourhood care in local communities.
Read: Transforming Neighbourhood Health (PDF) July 2025
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