Primary Care Estate

What are our priorities and what do we want to achieve?

The ICB supports the development and funding of general practice estate in Lincolnshire.

We have an established Primary Care Estates Group which supports the routine governance arrangements for reimbursed general practice estate.

The Group has supported the development of a number of business cases.

What are we doing? Examples of our work

Relocation of Glebe Park Surgery in Lincoln

The ICB is pleased to confirm that the relocation of Glebe Park Surgery in Lincoln is on track for early 2025/26, supporting improved estate to support service delivery and access for patients, in a convenient retail based location.

The team is working together with colleagues to develop a proposal to build a new, purpose-built Integrated Health and Care Centre (IHCC) in Boston town centre. This is being developed in the form of an outline business case. The project team in the ICB is working in collaboration with Boston Borough Council (BBC) and others.

The key aims are to provide a well-designed multi- service facility, primarily focusing on primary and community placed based, proactive, preventative care; whilst recognising the health needs of local people and addressing inequalities.

Section 106 funding

The Group also has oversight of plans for use of Section 106 funding within general practice.

Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 allows local authorities to enter into a legal arrangement with a developer to ensure that appropriate funding is available to mitigate any impacts arising from housing development on health infrastructure.

The ICB applies for funding on behalf of general practice and works with practices to ensure they utilise funds when they become available.

We continue to support a number of practices across the county to develop plans to improve and expand their sites with the available funding.

The ICB also successfully applied for NHS England capital funding to support improvement works for numerous practices in the county, to support improvements to the GP premises to expand clinical capacity which will take effect both in this financial year and next.

Infrastructure Strategy

As part of the Lincolnshire System Infrastructure and Investment Group, Primary care estate is a key part of the Infrastructure Strategy that has been under development.

Lincolnshire ICS has developed a draft Infrastructure Strategy which articulates the high-level programme case for the significant investment that is needed and without which our clinical vision and strategies will not be delivered.

The Strategy takes account of the need to transform and integrate services, and ensuring that we have a population, place-based needs approach aligning to our digital strategies and the rural and coastal challenges that we have.