NHS LIFT

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• NHS LIFT
• David Goldstone
• 4 December 2001

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Why the LIFT approach?

• Primary care estate - Condition and Suitability
• Fragmentation - Wide range of providers of care
• Piecemeal approach - delivers inefficiently
• Inflexibility long leases or ownership
• Specific issues in inner cities
• NHS Plan targets
• To move to
• integrated service plans
• efficient delivery mechanism

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NHS LIFT objectives

• To contribute to the NHS Plan targets (hard and
  soft)
• To efficiently deliver local investment and
  improved services
• To provide integrated services and facilities
• Concentrate on areas of greatest need
• Complement, not replace, existing approaches - so
  no compulsion to be part of a LIFT

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Scope of LIFT initiative

• Community based care facilities and services
• Integration with LA services, voluntary sector
  etc
• Local services determined by local requirements
• 6 initial schemes (covering existing HA areas)
  then.
• rapid roll out to priority areas
• Open-ended

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Progress already made

• Legislation passed
• DoH enabling funding
• Initial schemes working up service plans,
  consulting with local teams, practitioners etc
• Prospectus, conferences and consultation
• Partnerships for Health established as national
  delivery vehicle
• Standard documentation, developed and consulted
  on
• 2nd wave of schemes planned for end of the year

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Local Service delivery - the LIFT

• A joint venture between
• The HA, PCTs, LAs and other stakeholders eg
  individual practitioners
• A private sector partner
• Partnerships for Health
• Long term relationship to deliver
  investment/services.
• .that fall out of local health strategic plans
• A strategic partner for the locality