title: New 'PropCo' set to play a critical role.
abstract: Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, has announced that, as part of the new 'healthcare landscape', NHS Property Services (PropCo), which will be owned by the Department of Health (DH), will take ownership of existing primary care trust (PCT) estate not transferred to community care providers. The new company is expected to take over assets owned by PCTs such as offices and health centres, community hospitals, and clinics. Peter Wearmouth, a former chief executive of NHS Estates, and DH policy director on construction, property, and facilities management, who is now a director of Health Solutions at design, infrastructure, management, real estate, and outsourcing solutions specialist, Capita Symonds, considers the implications.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Wearmouth
mesh_terms: D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D008283:Maintenance / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008494:Medical Office Buildings / Q000458:organization & administration; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D020416:Outsourced Services; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom