ESTATES & FACILITIES XXXX
Delivering estate reconfiguration effectively
Simon Holden, chief executive at NHS Property Services, and Dr Sue O’Connell, chief executive of Community Health Partnerships (CHP), the head tenant for the NHS LIFT estate, give their thoughts on the importance of a new memorandum of understanding between the two organisations.
a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that sets out the companies’ shared objective of providing local health and care systems with the estate and premises services they need to meet current requirements.
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It is the second MoU the organisations have put in place, and NHE has been told the latest agreement has been designed to bring “even greater clarity” to service delivery relationships, and underpin business-as-usual activity in a manner that reflects good contract principles.
Dr Sue O’Connell, chief executive of CHP, and Simon Holden, chief executive of NHS Property Services, told us that over the next five years the companies will be working together to deliver significant system-based savings for the NHS.
Reconfiguring the NHS estate
In particular, these efficiencies will be driven both through operational activity designed to deliver service improvements, and through the identification, development and delivery of
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“To support the effective delivery of the MoU, we have jointly developed service level agreements (SLAs) for finance and facilities management services, and will continue to build on these across all aspects of our business.”
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estate-based opportunities to reconfigure the estate, so that it better meets the needs of the system and in order to release both revenue and capital savings from it.
The two CEOs added that the companies will work together to deploy appropriate levels of resource to support “estate reconfigurations” in the wider NHS, particularly in the light of clinical service requirements continuing to evolve in the medium-to-long-term.
“To do this, we are working together to support commissioners (CCGs, NHS England, GPs and local authorities) to plan and utilise their estates efficiently,” they said in a joint statement to NHE. “This Strategic Estate Planning programme is an evolving process and the intention is that there will be robust Strategic Estates Plans in all areas by the end of March 2015.
The value of the PPP programme
CHP has stated, as part of its approach to strategic planning, it will work with local partners to ensure that the 49 Strategic Estate Partnerships covering the LIFT areas – the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme which in the past decade has delivered more than 320 buildings, with more than £2.6bn of new investment – are successful and recognised as adding real value to their local health economy.
It will also produce Strategic Estate Plans across the 49 areas by 31 March 2015, setting out clear and resourced implementation programmes in line with the two and five year planning horizons of local commissioners. Additionally, CHP will increase the engagement with local authority and non-NHS partners.
The MoU also states: “The two companies will work together to help local health systems deliver £100m system savings by 2018 through the identification, development and delivery of estate-based opportunities to better meet the needs of the system and release both revenue and capital savings.”
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