Assura develops and retains for long-term investment: primary care resource centres; GP surgeries; polyclinics; and community hospitals.
Modern, effective premises
The current emphasis in today’s primary care market on the expansion of primary healthcare capacity, requires the continual upgrade of premises infrastructure and capital investment.
Premises must now be able to accommodate the shift of certain services previously based in hospitals, for example diagnostic and out-patient consultations.
This means flexible premises engineered to support change, evolution and a wide range of healthcare providers with fully effective facilities management.
Our strategy for property investment and development for the provision of healthcare services focuses on expanding our existing primary care facilities and/or relocating them.
We are committed to providing more effective premises that support GPs, primary care teams, pharmacy and secondary care partners, which we develop with external local property development teams.
The focus is on premises that support improved environments for patients and staff together.
Local need
Assura also purchases existing premises from GP practices and works with GPs and other health professionals to develop new, modern premises according to local need.
Assura is fully supportive of the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme and we are involved in several operational LIFT projects.
We also have the ability to speed up the delivery of LIFT projects for PCTs and help unlock existing projects that may have stalled or are not progressing as comprehensively as first hoped, through a shared development model or a collaborative joint venture/coownership scheme.
Prepared to take risk
To accelerate and facilitate the process of developing new premises, Assura is prepared to take careful, measured development risks and build new premises where potential occupiers have yet to commit, if we believe in the potential of a particular site or development.
On all of our larger developments, we intend to develop integrated pharmacy facilities and build additional space to accommodate our GPCo services.
