NHS: Buildings

Department of Health written question – answered at on 13 July 2017.

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Photo of Jon Ashworth Jon Ashworth Shadow Secretary of State for Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the full list of NHS estates under consideration for sale under the recommendations of the Naylor Review, the estimated value of each such site and a breakdown of the location of those sites; and whether each such site is currently being used for patient care.

Photo of Philip Dunne Philip Dunne The Minister of State, Department of Health

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

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

The Review did not identify specific surplus National Health Service land and buildings nor recommend the sale of specific sites. It identified the variation in efficiency with which NHS organisations use their land and buildings and quantified the opportunity if relatively poor performers increased their efficiency up to benchmark. We are engaging with the NHS to refine the benchmarks and enable them to identify opportunities to support delivery of the Department’s existing aims to release land no longer required by the NHS sufficient for 26,000 and to generate up to £2 billion of proceeds for reinvestment in healthcare facilities and services.

It is for local NHS land owners to determine whether land and buildings are no longer needed for patient care and available for disposal, as part of the development of local plans by sustainability and transformation partnerships.

NHS Digital undertakes an annual collection of data from individual NHS organisations on the land and property that they have deemed surplus to the delivery of healthcare. The latest data are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nhs-surplus-land-financial-year-2016-to-2017-england

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