Team appointed to manage NHS LIFT buildings
CHP names new property team taking over responsibility for LIFT estate from PCTs
A team has been appointed to oversee future management of the NHS estate at Community Health Partnerships (CHP), the body that has taken over responsibility for buildings delivered through the LIFT procurement framework following the axing of primary care trusts.
Lesley McGregor, Gavin Hindley, Ann-Marie Grant and Riana Relihan have been appointed corporate property managers at CHP, which is now ‘head tenant’ for NHS LIFT buildings across England.
The appointments are the first made within the new property team and each will cover one of four regional areas, holding overall responsibility for property management services within that region and working as part of their respective CHP regional team.
McGregor, who joins from FM company, OCS, will take charge of the North (East) region while Hindley, a chartered surveyor and former employee at Community Solutions, will cover London. The North (West) region will be covered by Grant, who has worked in the NHS since 1993, most recently as head of estates development for the North Essex PCT cluster, and Relihan, former project director and head of capital estates at NHS Oxfordshire primary care trust, will look after the Midlands.
Neil McElduff, director lead for property at CHP said: “This is a very exciting time. The changing NHS landscape means these new appointments will be instrumental in driving improvements in the management of estates through better use and contract management, reducing costs and contributing to wider Quality, Innovation, Prevention and Productivity (QIPP) savings.”
The property managers will work with a range of local partners to provide a safe, efficient, high-quality and well maintained LIFT estate for the benefit of patients, staff and other service users across the their respective region.
