Group at the centre of healthcare strategy

LHL GROUP has won a series of contracts to project manage the development of new primary care centres throughout Grimsby.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Jan 2010, 11:46 BST
Updated 7th Jan 2010, 11:46 BST

The contracts, which include three new centres with an 11.5m capital value, were won by LHL Healthcare, a specialist division of LHL Group which supports building projects within the NHS and private healthcare.

They include the 1.5m Raj Medical Centre, Grimsby, developed for Raj Medical Practice which serves 4,500 patients. Building work is due to start in February and be completed in November.

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A planning application has been submitted for the second contract, a 4m primary care centre in Grimsby. If North East Lincolnshire planners back the scheme, building work will start in April and take 12 months, after which it will be occupied by Birkwood Surgery which has 6,500 patients.

The third Grimsby scheme is the 6m Springfield Primary Care Centre in Scartho. Building work started last month and will finish in May 2011. The GP practice, Scartho Medical Centre, currently serves 10,000 patients but has the capacity to grow to 15,000 in the new centre.

The Grimsby schemes are all part of a 10-year estates strategy by NE Lincs Care Trust Plus to upgrade all inadequate GP premises.

By the end of the strategy, LHL Healthcare will have helped to deliver 12 new primary care centres, including Freshney Green Primary Care Centre, Grimsby, which serves 32,000 patients and was completed in the autumn and Cromwell Road Primary Care Centre which opened in December.

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In each case, LHL Healthcare acted for the GP practices and North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus, formulating the development brief and dealing with the appointed developer throughout the site assembly and design development stage. On start of construction, LHL Healthcare has become tenant's surveyor. Ken Hawley, head of LHL Healthcare, said: "North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus is delivering a vigorous and exciting estates strategy which typifies a significant shift in direction taken by all stakeholders in primary and social care, moving away from a territorial approach to one of co-operation and sharing resources which has benefits for all those involved."

The LHL Group, which has 32 staff, has offices in

Doncaster, York, Hull, Newcastle and Harrogate.

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