Leeds CCG have recently been awarded funding under the NHS Estates and Technology Transformation Fund (ETTF) to allow the completion of 19 Primary Care Network Estates Profiles, one for each PCN in the city, and have commissioned Community Ventures Leeds to undertake this work.

EMS Community Ventures (ECV) was very proud to reach the finals at the Partnership Awards in December 2020.

The latest NHS ERIC Return is reporting a substantial increase in Trusts’ backlog maintenance data, with the cost to eradicate backlog increasing from £6.4 billion in 2018-19 to £9.1 billion in 2019-20.

Community Ventures was very proud to co-host a webinar with partners Planning House and Bevan Brittan on Wednesday 9th September.  The Webinar, entitled ‘Recent and Proposed Changes in Town Planning’, considered planning for the future, proposed changes to the current planning system, the effects of Covid-19 on planning and what’s next for planning, as well as a detailed overview on the Planning White Paper.

Community Ventures are jointly hosting a free webinar on Recent and Proposed Changes in Town Planning

Emma Bolton, our Area Director for Leeds and the North East and Louise English, who works for North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions (the Estates and Facilities provider to North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust) consider how the physical healthcare environment can continue to provide a safe, fit-for-purpose setting for high quality care as services start to be recommissioned, and planned care recommences, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

At Community Ventures, we are well placed to offer you advice as you make plans to ‘Reset’ following the peak of the pandemic.  We have staff embedded within NHS Trusts who are actively undertaking ‘Covid Secure’ risk assessments, and have membership on a number of networking groups who meet to share ideas and learning.  We are advising a number of clients on their Estates Strategies, and are looking at how these will need to respond to the way in which Covid-19 has changed the clinical and healthcare administrative environment.

In these uncertain times you will be able to continue working with Community Ventures with minimal interruption. We thought that it was important to make you aware of our policies and the steps we have already taken to protect our people and our partners/clients whilst ensuring that we can continue to provide an excellent service.

Community Ventures are proud to have shared in the success of Thornaby Town Under 9’s 2018/19 season and there were celebrations at their end of season awards ceremony over the weekend.