Green light for UK’s greenest health building
NHS England and NHS Improvement has given the go ahead for one of the most energy efficient buildings in the NHS which will be the first of its type in the UK to be certified to the Passivhaus standard. The Foleshill Health Centre building in Coventry will be a new...
Supporting the NHS through COVID-19
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, CHP has been actively working with NHS England+Improvement and Public Health England to support the health system and we are continuing to do so as circumstances change and the lockdown is eased. Hot and cold hubs CHP...
North West LIFT Company supports local community during pandemic
Renova Developments, one of CHP’s key partners in LIFT developments in the North West, have donated £24,000 to local community groups to support vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic. The money has been given to groups in St Helens, Knowsley, Warrington and...
New Soft FM helpdesk for tenants goes live on 1 April
The new CHP Soft FM helpdesk will start operation on Wednesday 1 April 2020. The new service, being operated by OCS, will provide a central number for tenants and TLMs to log all Soft FM jobs. CHP’s mobilisation team has been working with OCS to ensure a smooth...
Launch of new guide to help PCNs get started on developing their estate to meet the challenges of integrated care
A practical ‘how to’ guide to help primary care networks (PCNs) start work on developing their premises so they’re able to provide integrated, community-based health and care well into the future is launched today (5 March). The guide - Primary Care Networks: critical...
Longhill variation improves use of space in health centre
Longhill Health Centre in Hull provides primary care facilities for a variety of tenants including East Hull Family Practice. CHP funded a project to reconfigure part of the health centre on the ground floor to increase clinical capacity and reduce the duplication of...
£15 million Alfred Barrow Health Centre opens in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
A state of the art £15 million health centre offering GP and primary health care services in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, opened on 11 November 2019. The site was chosen for its central location and has successfully blended the refurbishment of the former Alfred Barrow...
Jean Bishop Centre wins major award
The Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre (ICC) in Hull has won a major national award for the best Community/Primary Care Service Redesign in the North, Midlands and East at this year’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards – recognising the outstanding contribution the...
LIFT partner collaborates with local football club to help tackle increasing NHS pressures
Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR) has worked with their local LIFT company to produce a series of educational videos to help people make the right choices when accessing NHS services. The ‘R NHS’ campaign was developed by Community Health Partnerships’ local...
New Chair for Community Health Partnerships
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced that Catherine Mason has joined Community Health Partnerships (CHP) as Chair from today. She will replace John Bacon, CB, who has come to end of his tenure after more than eight years with CHP. Catherine is Chair...
Building a health centre for Dulwich and south Southwark – Topping out ceremony marks another significant milestone
A traditional ‘topping out’ ceremony took place on Friday 12 April to celebrate the structural completion of the new health centre in Dulwich. The Mayor of Southwark, Cllr Catherine Rose, and Dulwich and West Norwood MP, Helen Hayes, joined the CCG’s Director of...
Official opening of a state-of-the-art breast screening clinic at Finchley Memorial Hospital by the Secretary of State
On Thursday 17 January, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock visited the latest NHS service to open in Finchley Memorial Hospital (FMH). Matt Hancock said: “I am hugely impressed by how the new breast screening clinic in Finchley is designed...