GP consortia already have the local knowledge about their population’s health needs and personal experience of what is right or wrong about certain parts of the estate from which services to patients are carried out. However, it is probably the case that they are not aware of the condition and suitability of the overall estate within their clinical group’s area.

Ensuring GPs are ‘transition ready’ and in a strong position for the future may require minor adjustments to the way they currently operate and utilise the local community asset estate, or it may mean major changes and big decisions to address inadequate, poor quality estate and the poor performance of previous estate operations.

Oldham is in the fortunate position of having a modern ‘fit for purpose’ estate in place, delivered through the LIFT partnership over the last seven years, to enable new care pathways and service re-design to take place.

All of these facilities were built to provide flexible infrastructure that will meet the requirements of evolving service strategies and change in demand to ensure optimum and efficient use of the estate.

We have an in depth knowledge of the flexibility and capability of each of the facilities to respond to local commissioning plans and welcome becoming part of the transitional activities.

We understand the challenges faced by GPs and the clinical commissioning group to deliver effective clinical commissioning as a result of the Health and Social Care reforms. To support that commissioning, we offer flexible lease arrangements and short and long term estate management arrangements to take away the headache of estate management.

We can also provide other business and contract support services for commissioning groups if required.  These include:

  • Financial and business management support
  • Business planning
  • Procurement and Service Level Agreement Monitoring
  • Ensuring continuous service improvement

Our approach is less about producing answers to solutions we think commissioners might need or imposing fixed methods, but more about providing the right choices to be debated and progressed to a bespoke response that meets your individual needs.

No matter what choices you need to make, we will offer an independent view.