NHS Lift

In 2000 the government issued a 10 year blueprint for investment in the NHS, the NHS Plan, designed to deliver major improvements in health.

The NHS Plan identifies a number of targets for increased investment in primary health and social care facilities, including 500 new “one-stop shops” and the modernisation of 3,000 GP premises.

NHS LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) is a new approach to capital investment for community based services, aimed at meeting the targets for primary care described in the NHS Plan.

Local stakeholders will enter a Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the form of a local LIFT company, which will own and develop fully maintained property for primary, community and social care users.

NHS LIFT aims to develop a new market for investment in primary care and community-based facilities and services.

The Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Minister of State for Health, speaking at the LIFT National Conference, December 5th, 2002 said...

"In LIFT we have a great opportunity to build a future for primary care that will be categorised by modern, purpose-built facilities for NHS staff and patients alike, and which can take the long-standing relationship that has always existed between NHS primary care services into a new and exciting phase of development - helping the NHS become the service we want it to be."