News

Mar 19, 2009

Odyssey selected for Express LIFT

 

Odyssey Healthcare, the consortium of Amber Infrastructure, Ashley House plc and G4s has been appointed by the Department of Health as one of only seven private sector partners able to undertake new Express LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) work.
Only these selected partners will be able to form new LIFT companies via Express LIFT with the circa 75 Primary Care Trusts (“PCTs”) not currently covered by the
NHS LIFT framework.
Odyssey Healthcare has been established to bid for and undertake Express LIFT work. To date, 47 NHS LIFT companies have been created covering approximately half
of the country, with the Odyssey Healthcare partners leading on seven of them.
The new Express LIFT framework aims, for an initial two year period, to give the remaining PCTs who have not yet joined LIFT a fast-track means of procurement for new Primary and Social Care facilities by establishing a new LIFTCo locally with a
choice of any one of the seven designated private sector partners.
Further major opportunities exist across NHS LIFT and Express LIFT to work in conjunction with the PCT partners to deliver whole estate solutions whereby the
existing local primary care estate could be transferred into a public/private joint venture. Enhanced estate management linked to service planning can then
allow reconfiguration of the existing estate with consequential benefits for all parties.

Odyssey Healthcare, the consortium of Amber Infrastructure, Ashley House plc and G4s has been appointed by the Department of Health as one of only seven private sector partners able to undertake new Express LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) work.

Only these selected partners will be able to form new LIFT companies via Express LIFT with the circa 75 Primary Care Trusts (“PCTs”) not currently covered by the NHS LIFT framework.

Odyssey Healthcare has been established to bid for and undertake Express LIFT work. To date, 47 NHS LIFT companies have been created covering approximately half of the country, with the Odyssey Healthcare partners leading on seven of them.

The new Express LIFT framework aims, for an initial two year period, to give the remaining PCTs who have not yet joined LIFT a fast-track means of procurement for new Primary and Social Care facilities by establishing a new LIFTCo locally with a choice of any one of the seven designated private sector partners.

Further major opportunities exist across NHS LIFT and Express LIFT to work in conjunction with the PCT partners to deliver whole estate solutions whereby the existing local primary care estate could be transferred into a public/private joint venture. Enhanced estate management linked to service planning can then allow reconfiguration of the existing estate with consequential benefits for all parties.