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NHS LIFT guidance
Documentation and accounting advice about LIFT. The accounting guidance for LIFT has been suspended pending updating.
Guidance on process and qualifying criteria for delivery of NHS Bank support to NHS LIFT schemes
Published: 20/10/2005
Gateway Reference 5692
New guidance on approving investments in NHS LIFT (business case format and checklist)
Business case approval guidance for establishing a New Lift Company, supporting appendices providing a business case checklist and template. Separate guidance is under development dealing with the business case approval process for existing LIFTCos
NHS LIFT and pharmacy
Published: 19/09/2005
This guidance provides a general overview on NHS LIFT and pharmacy (gateway reference 5535)
The implications of Commissioning a Patient-led NHS for NHS LIFT
Published: 19/09/2005
This guidance clarifies the implications with particular reference to the reconfiguration of PCTs and their changing roles (gateway reference 5532).
Guidance on the use of enabling funds
This paper gives revised guidance (December 2004) on the use of capital Enabling Funds allocated by the Department of Health to help kick-start LIFT projects.
New GMS contract and changes to the GP premises funding arrangements
11 November 2003.
Guidance to PCTs on taking a shareholding in a local LIFT company
Published: 24/09/2003
This guidance note explains the development of the Department of Health policy which recommends the formation of a number of joint venture companies to develop primary care facilities, and provides advice on the considerations a PCT should take when committing to an equity stake in a local LIFT company. This note draws on the guidance on this subject published by HM Treasury in 2001.
Leaseplus guide for GP surgeries
Guidance paper prepared (June 2003) by the BMA's General Practitioners Committee (GPC) and Partnerships for Health (PfH).
Top four LIFT questions raised by non-executive directors of PCTs/SHAs
NHS LIFT starter pack
Published: 01/08/2002
The purpose of this starter pack is to introduce the initiative to health and social care professionals who are embarking on or considering the development of community based health and social care services through LIFT.
NHS local improvement finance trust (NHS LIFT) prospectus
Published: 05/07/2001
This prospectus presents the objectives of NHS LIFT and outlines the structure of the NHS LIFT initiative and of a local LIFT.
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