NHS: Buildings

(asked on 22nd June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the value of private sector profit that will be generated in each of the next five years as a result of the implementation of the Naylor Review.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 29th June 2017

NHS Property and Estates: why the estate matters for patients (the Naylor Review) is an independent report prepared for the Department and published on 31 March 2017. The report is available on the Department’s website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-property-and-estates-naylor-review

Recognising that the estate is critical to the delivery of National Health Service services as well as one of its largest assets and drivers of cost, the Review sets out a number of recommendations for how the NHS estate can be better utilised in a way that both:

- supports the delivery of high quality, modern services for patients as envisaged in the NHS’s own plan for change, the Five Year Forward View; and

- maximises value for taxpayers by releasing land and buildings that it no longer needs or uses, and reinvesting the proceeds into new or updated facilities that are more suited to the delivery of modern clinical services.

The Government is giving careful consideration to the Review’s recommendations and will respond fully in due course.

The Department has an existing aim to release land no longer required by the NHS sufficient for 26,000 houses and to generate up to £2 billion of proceeds for reinvestment in healthcare facilities and services. The Review and its recommendations aim to support delivery of this and the Review flagged the longer term potential for going further.

It is important to stress that the requirements for beds and other healthcare capacity are driven by local plans developed by sustainability and transformation plans. The Review is focussed on how best to support the development of an estate which meets these needs and supports best value for money for taxpayers through the most efficient use of the NHS estate, including where local clinical plans identify estate that is no longer required for health services.

NHS organisations are under a legal duty to consult local people and communities on proposals to make substantial changes to the services that they provide to patients.

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