A day before the National Health Service marks its 75th anniversary, NHS Properties have released a video celebrating the decade-long contribution of front line workers to the NHS Estate.
NHS Property Services (NHSPS) is celebrating 10 years of serving patients, customers and local communities with facilities management, property expertise and transformation of the NHS estate across England.
A key advisor to NHS organisations on all property matters, NHSPS has evolved to enable its customers to focus on what they do best – providing excellent care to patients.
To celebrate the milestone birthday, NHSPS colleagues across the business – including a member of the team with a staggering 50 years NHS service - have been featured in a short film highlighting some of the exemplary work they deliver.
To celebrate the milestone birthday, NHSPS colleagues across the business - including a member of the team with a staggering 50 years NHS service - have been featured in a short film highlighting some of the exemplary work they deliver.
By working in innovative ways and collaborating with NHS teams locally, regionally and nationally, they have been able to support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan providing buildings which meet the needs of patients accessing new models of care.
Martin Steele, Chief Executive Officer at NHSPS, explains: “The last ten years have seen significant change across the NHS, and I am incredibly proud of the role NHSPS colleagues have played in helping to support that change.
"Our ambition is to continue focusing on putting our customers at the heart of everything we do, working in partnership with our NHS colleagues and enabling them to deliver excellent care to the patients and communities they serve.”
Our ambition is to continue focusing on putting our customers at the heart of everything we do, working in partnership with our NHS colleagues and enabling them to deliver excellent care to the patients and communities they serve.
Key achievements realised by NHSPS since 2013 include:
- Reinvesting more than 504m into the NHS from property sales
- Enabling 8,023 new homes to be built
- Providing 2.4 million Open Space hours of patient care
- Completing 260 Healthy Places projects benefiting 3 million+ patients
- Reviewing over 4,000 planning consultation documents
- Saving the NHS 38m through energy efficiency programmes
- Launching 75 social prescribing hubs
- Delivering the first ICS (Integrated Care System) estates strategy for Cambridge & Peterborough ICS
- Developing a workforce of 6,000 colleagues - including 5,000 hidden heroes - who keep our buildings in working order
- Supporting the NHS during the Covid19 pandemic to provide 1,000 additional beds, set up 23 mass vaccination sites and 227 Primary Care Network vaccination sites as well as conducting over 10,000 deep cleans.
5th July 2023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service.
Treating over a million people a day in England, the public healthcare provider touches the lives of everyone in Britain.
Treating over a million people a day in England, the public healthcare provider touches the lives of everyone in Britain. When it was founded in 1948, the NHS was the first universal health system to be available to all, free at the point of delivery. Today, nine in 10 people agree that healthcare should be free of charge, more than four in five agree that care should be available to everyone, and that the NHS makes them most proud to be British. Find out more about NHS75 at https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhsbirthday/.
Today, nine in 10 people agree that healthcare should be free of charge, more than four in five agree that care should be available to everyone, and that the NHS makes them most proud to be British.
Find out more about NHS75 at https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhsbirthday/.
