As a registered social landlord, we have many years experience of providing and managing the delivery of high-quality repair and maintenance services.

That experience now finds a new and expanded application, as we aim to lead our industry in delivering exemplary FM services to community-based health projects.

Our £47m PFI bid to reprovide mental health facilities for the city of Leeds, secured us a 25-year partnership to provide both hard and soft FM services to seven hospital and residential units across the city. Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust continues to fulfill the clinical needs of its patients, while we take care of housekeeping, catering, portering and landscaping, as well as lifecycle, planned and reactive maintenance.

We provide some of the services with a directly employed 170-strong team, while others are delivered through sub-contractors managed by our central group of highly-experienced managers. We make extensive use of innovative processes and technologies in keeping close contact with our customers, and in being able to respond swiftly and positively to their needs.

In July 2006, our FM team won a contract to provide hard FM services to a growing number of primary health care centres in Bradford and Airedale and Tees Valley and South Durham. The centres are part of the NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme, in which we are a private sector partner.

Photo: Tony Blair meets with staff during his visit to Stockton in October 2006 to open the new Lawson Street Health Centre.

The centre was developed as part of our involvement in the local NHS LIFT for Tees Valley and South Durham.