NHS England announces second wave of GP premises funding

Thirty-one more practices will benefit from the long-delayed £1bn general practice premises fund, including plans to build new ‘integrated care hubs’.

Over half of the projects, all in Devon and the South West of England, are for IT projects including local record-sharing systems and new radiography technology.

Funding going towards premises includes six new buildings – typically integrated care ‘hubs’ or primary care centres – and six projects to improve existing premises.

Money will also fund a new secure mental health services adult unit which NHS England said would reduce the need for people to travel out of the South West region to access the service.

This is the second cohort of projects to be announced from the rebranded ‘Estates and Technology Transformation Fund’, following a first wave of 300 schemes in the Midlands and East of England last month.

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, who is visting Devon today, said: ‘There are some brilliant NHS services across the South West.

‘We’re determined to see practical action to help offer even better cancer, mental health and GP services for people across Devon, and today the NHS is demonstrably putting its money where its mouth is.’

The transformation fund, previously known as the primary care infrastructure fund, was launched in 2014 as a four-year programme to invest in GP estate, which was hampered by a requirement for any funded bids to be completed within the financial year.

Pulse revealed that millions in approved funding was rescinded by NHS England last year after NHS England overhauled the scheme, and changed the terms of the fund to require practices to get CCG sign off on any bids.

The next GP schemes to receive investment from NHS England’s Estates and Technology Transformation Fund

Investment in technology

Scheme	CCG
Unified Communications for Primary Care	NHS Kernow CCG
Digital End of Life (EoL) Shared Care Plan Platform: Supporting Primary Care to be System Leaders in Transforming New Models of Sustainable Care	NHS Kernow CCG
Ocean Health	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
NEW Devon Access at the Point of Care for Primary Care	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
Drake – Everyone Matters/Counts’	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
WEB Federation – Exe Estuary Health – Forward thinking.	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
SIDeR Integration Programme	NHS Somerset CCG
One Domain for Somerset	NHS Somerset CCG
Your Health and Well-Being, Mendip Primary Care – Online Video Consultation project	NHS Somerset CCG
Taunton and Wellington Extended Access and Integrated Care (TWEAIC) Scheme	NHS Somerset CCG
West Somerset Urgent Care Centre Development project	NHS Somerset CCG
Remote access to clinical IT	NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG
CCG Wide Telephony	NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG
BNSSG – Document Sharing	NHS South Gloucestershire CCG
BNSSG – Personal Health Record	NHS South Gloucestershire CCG
BNSSG – Radiography report and image sharing with GP practices via the Image Exchange Portal (IEP)	NHS South Gloucestershire CCG
BNSSG – One Domain for BNSSG GP Practices	NHS South Gloucestershire CCG
BNSSG – Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCs)	NHS South Gloucestershire CCG

Investment in existing premises

Scheme	CCG
Saltash Health Centre	NHS Kernow CCG
Estates improvement in South Kerrier to support the South Kerrier Integrated Care Community and Place Based Plan	NHS Kernow CCG
Estates improvement Isles of Scilly to support the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Community and Place Based Plan	NHS Kernow CCG
Drake – Everyone Matters/Counts’	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
The South Molton Merger Project	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
Pembroke Hub	NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG
Dartmouth Wellbeing Centre	NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG

New builds

Scheme	CCG
Launceston Primary Care Centre	NHS Kernow CCG
Camelford Health & Wellbeing Hub	NHS Kernow CCG
Mid Devon Healthcare Hub, Crediton	NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG
French Weir and St James Medical Centre Co-location	NHS Somerset CCG
Teignmouth Integrated Care (TIC)	NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG
Option Appraisal and business case development Thornbury/Pilning/Almondsbury	NHS South Gloucestershire CCG