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This is the fourth podcast in our short series about GP premises. This week Ben talks to John Pilcher from GPI, a primary care premises developer. John talks to Ben about the capital available for primary care estate development including capital money made available by the NHS Estates Fund and that from third party developers. He explains the differences between third party investment and PFI and talks about actions being taken to shorten the length of leases.

Show Notes

GPI is a third-party primary care premises developer (39secs)

Investor/develop/owner of primary care premises (55secs)

The drivers creating demand for new primary care estate (1mins 35secs)

The traditional model may no longer be appropriate (2mins 47secs)

The challenge of investing in new estate (3mins 34secs)

Is the NHS providing sufficient capital? (5mins 02secs)

Real-life, practical issues for GPs (6mins 47secs)

Where else can the capital come from? (8mins 19secs)

No capital – invest revenue (9mins 37secs)

Other routes – including third party development (10mins 25secs)

£3.3bn available for 750 new primary care buildings? (11mins 35secs)

How close is this to PFI? (13mins 28secs)

Rents dictated by the District Valuer (17mins 07secs)

Concerns about the length of leases (18mins 05secs)

Learning more (19mins 44secs)

Contacting John (20mins 32secs)

John can be contacted at john.pilcher@gpgroup.co.uk

GPI’s website is available at www.gpgroup.co.uk

The other three episodes in this series are:

Episode 1: Paul Conlan from GP Surveyors

Episode 2: Edwina Farrell from Weightmans

Episode 3: Ian Crompton from Lloyds Banking Group