UK’s greenest healthcare building on site in just 10 days
In December Community Health Partnerships (CHP) met a key milestone for the new green Foleshill Health Centre in Coventry when the specially designed modular building was placed on site. The centre, which will be the UK’s greenest healthcare building, is also quick to...
Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre Hull wins prestigious Best Social Infrastructure Project at Partnerships Awards 2020
The Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre (ICC) in Hull, has won a major international award recognising the contribution the building and team has made to improving the lives of frail, older people in the city. The Centre won the prestigious Best Social Infrastructure...
New home for sexual health services
The Flying Scotsman in Doncaster will soon be the new home for the town’s sexual health services following partnership work led by Community Health Partnerships to improve use of the building. Doncaster Local Strategic Estates Group had identified a need to bring...
The community estate pandemic response: observations, lessons learned and what this means for the future
Listen to our CEO Dr Sue O’Connell and James Bawn, National Lead for Partnering and Engagement at CHP, discuss the community estate challenges and CHP’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The 5-minute sponsored podcast working with the HSJ, will hear how the...
Healthcare Estates 2020 Digital Week – A Digital Construction case study
Our Developments team joined partners Fulcrum and Wilmott Dixon to deliver a 20-minute webinar on the development of the Tessa Jowell Health Centre, as part of Healthcare Estates Digital week that took place virtually at the beginning of October. Alison Butcher from...
CHP customers – please give us your views
The CHP 2020 customer satisfaction survey is live until 15 October 2020. We really want to hear your views of our service so we can work to continuously improve it. If you are a CHP tenant, commissioner, GP or member of an organisation using our buildings to deliver...
Patients to receive care in first class facilities as work set to begin on West Hull Health Hub
Contracts have been exchanged enabling work to begin on an £8m state-of-the-art health hub to benefit thousands of patients in west Hull. The development is being taken forward using the third party developer approach by health estates specialist Citycare, and...
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...
Soft FM helpdesk for tenants – OCS
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...