LIFT

Local Improvement Finance Trusts (LIFT) have secured a dramatic improvement in primary and social care services and facilities.

Together 48 LIFT companies have generated over £2 billion in investment to develop more than 250 new integrated community facilities that are either open or under construction.

These LIFT companies are partnerships of public-private finance and expertise. The partnerships are able to create integrated facilities more quickly, particularly in disadvantaged areas, in ways tailored to local needs, than is normally possible.

The LIFT concept has inspired partnerships, enabling true innovation and exciting community care models to be developed, such as incorporating housing and benefit advice, mental health services and voluntary agencies, within one building.

LIFT is breaking down the organisational silos that have traditionally existed between the primary and secondary healthcare sectors and between the NHS and social care.