THE GROUP
ReSound Health
Welcome to ReSound Health. We are a public:private partnership established for the purpose of building Doctor’s surgeries and primary healthcare facilities fit for the 21st Century – and we’re helping to make Plymouth better, in every sense of the word.
Our first development Ernesettle G.P. Surgery, was opened in September 2005. The following year we opened our 60-bed Local Care Centre, built on the former Mount Gould Hospital site. This development also includes a GP’s surgery, pharmacy and a facility for mobile diagnostic units.
We are currently working on construction of a new Primary Care Centre for Cattedown. This will be a centre of excellence and a teaching practice for five GPs, as well as providing space for a two-chair dental practice and offices for the PCT. The GP’s from the existing Wycliffe practice will be relocating to the new Primary Care Centre in January 2008. Currently, their practice occupies very small premises, no longer suitable for the size of the patient list. The new building will give them sufficient space to provide a full range of services and will enable them once again to become a teaching practice.
Current plans include a 12-bed residential unit located close to Derriford. The £4 million CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) unit has already been granted outline Planning Permission and is now in the process of detailed design. This development will provide a much needed service for the whole Devon & Cornwall peninsula and will help to improve the future for local youngsters through clinical research.
Other projects in the pipeline include another Local Care Centre and work is also currently in hand on a number of mixed-use developments, working in conjunction with our other partners Plymouth City Council and the Plymouth Hospitals Trust. These will include libraries, primary care and childcare facilities, together with community resource centres.
ReSound Health was set up as a public:private partnership under the Government’s LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) initiative to develop facilities for primary & community-based health and social care facilities in the Plymouth area. The LIFT initiative is intended to introduce investment through private sector shareholders, to speed up the procurement process through long-term partnership between developer and end-user and to deliver projects which give value for money by working with a market-tested, construction supply chain.
The Department of Health, through their organisation Partnerships for Health (PfH) and Plymouth teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) equally share a 40% stake in the business, while Sutton Harbour Holdings is the largest private shareholder with 37.2%. The remaining shareholding is shared equally by the Midas Group and project managers & healthcare consultants Cyril Sweett.
Current developments summary:
Ernesettle Surgery was the first development completed by ReSound Health. Opened in September 2005, the premises are occupied by the PCT under a 25-year Lease Plus Agreement during which time the building will be fully maintained by ReSound Health.
Facilities include:
3 GP consulting rooms
2 GP training rooms
Treatment room
Minor operations room
Nursing/Phlebotomy room
Single Chair Dentistry suite
Gymnasium and changing facilities, for use by the local community
Contract Details:
Contract value – £1,440,998
Gross Internal Floor Area – 768 m2
Construction started – 8th November 2004
Completed – 23rd September 2005
Mount Gould Local Care Centre was completed in August 2006 and became operational in October the same year.
Facilities include:
Local Care Centre
34 Single bedrooms
6 No. 4-bed wards
2 No. Assisted living flats
Physio-gym
Audiology, hearing test room
X-Ray
Minor operations room
School of Podiatry (administered by the University of Plymouth)
Facilities for Social Services and the Peninsula Medical School
Snack bar
Pharmacy
Multi faith Chaplaincy
Community Space for use by voluntary groups
GP Surgery
4 GP consulting rooms
1 training room
Minor operations room
Contract Details:
Contract Value - £13,240,000
Gross Internal Floor Area – 7,840 m²
Construction started – 4th January 2005
Completed – August 2006
Cattedown Primary Care Centre – under construction, for occupation January 2008
Facilities include:
4 GP consulting rooms
1 GP training rooms
2 Treatment rooms
Minor operations room
Nursing/Phlebotomy room
District nurse & Health visitor rooms
Two Chair Dentistry suite
Offices for PCT
Meeting rooms for local community use
Contract Details:
Contract value – £3,119,000
Gross Internal Floor Area – 1,281 m²
Construction started – 15th January 2007
Completed – 15th January 2008
Design & Build Team – all projects:
Architects – Devereux LHC
Structural Engineers – Jubb & Partners
M&E Engineers – Faber Maunsell
Contractors – Midas Projects (UK) Ltd.
For more information on ReSound Health, contact Adrian Griffin on 01752 204701 or email: a.griffin@resoundhealth.co.uk
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