PPP

Since the introduction of PFI to NHS projects in the early ‘90s, Ryhurst has achieved a leading position in the field of Mental Health and Community Care PFI projects.

Ryhurst has now completed 12 individual PFI projects. Operations on the first schemes commenced in 1998 since when the company has gained a reputation for professionalism, pragmatism and performance, as evidenced in its levels of asset availability and service delivery.

We are also actively working with partners on traditional PPP projects. Whether your requirements involve a stand-alone procurement or a strategic partnership such as a community venture Ryhurst would be pleased to work with you to share the risks and rewards.

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Partnership Services

Where organisations do not have sufficient in-house resources, have a gap in their skills and competencies or choose to outsource the delivery of estates and property services in part or in full, Ryhurst has the expertise and experience to provide these services. In doing so, Ryhurst’s objective is to, ‘develop bespoke solutions in the provision, management and maintenance of health and social care facilities.’

For example, where a project to provide new facilities has been identified, Ryhurst can offer the expertise to progress the project through the development phase to a fully operational building. For further details, please click on any of the selections above.

LIFT

When the Government announced the NHS LIFT initiative in 2000, Ryhurst was quick to understand how our experience and expertise aligned with the requirements of a successful LIFT initiative.

Ryhurst has successfully, to date developed six community health centres across two NHS LIFT schemes. We also provide ongoing operational company management and facilities management services on behalf of the LIFT companies.

Asset Solutions

As competition for staff and for income increase and patient choice raises the importance of delivering the highest quality of care in easily accessible buildings and within a quality environment, making your assets work for you is essential.

At Ryhurst we understand the impact failure to deliver on these issues could have, and our aim is to assist by working in a strategic partnership based around aligned aims and objectives. We want our partner's care facilities to become a destination of choice for patients and to contribute towards care employees seeing our partner as their employer of choice. If they do so, the facilities will be in demand and our partner will be successful.

Ryhurst’s role in achieving this is to provide our partner with asset solutions embracing some or all of the following; asset acquisition, provision, management and disposal. Our aim is to structure the partnership so that risks and rewards are equitably shared and that safeguards are in place to ensure the continued availability of the land and buildings for their intended use.

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Project Solutions

Whatever the nature of the project Ryhurst’s skilled team will be able to assist

For example, in our LIFT projects Ryhurst assumes lead responsibility for taking projects from concept through to reality. At all stages of the project we assume responsibility for delivering the agreed facility, or works, reporting progress to shareholders and stakeholders.

We will establish and manage strong integrated multi-disciplinary teams to drive the project from conception through the design and development phases, consulting with service users and service deliverers, liaising with statutory authorities and our client, reporting progress and actively seeking solutions to affordability and value for money issues. Once the construction phase starts, our skills allow us to actively manage the construction process and to ensure the transition from construction to operation is as smooth as possible.

Our bidding experience will also allow us to take the lead in developing business cases for access to funding streams and in submitting bids to provide new services.

Procurement and Contract Management

Working in the complex PFI sector, Ryhurst has an established expertise in the procurement of: supply chain partners, multi-disciplinary advisors and works and services. This is supported by extensive negotiation experience and a sound working knowledge of the legal aspects surrounding these activities to ensure compliance with a client’s governance rules.

Ryhurst has established numerous special purpose companies as the legal entity for joint ventures and has expertise in the operational management of these companies.

Our contract management experience provides the expertise that will support the management of contracts with a range of service providers. In so doing we can draw on our comprehensive operational contract management and reporting systems and processes. We also have first hand experience of leading benchmarking and market testing exercises.

Investment

Ryhurst was established to secure investments in health and care PFI projects and was successful in this market. Its success was based on providing high quality affordable assets and services that exceeded client expectations.

Recently, Ryhurst has expanded its investment strategy to enable the delivery of community heath and care services. Whether the investment is in new facilities or existing ones, Ryhurst will work alongside public and private sector service providers to enable their service delivery.

We recognise the nature of our partner’s existing assets and realise that their requirements for new facilities will not fit easily into a ‘one size fits all’ solution. To overcome this we will seek to add value by developing solutions tailored to their particular circumstances.

Asset Management Solutions

In providing a complete asset management service, our approach is to work in partnership to ensure we play an integral role achieving our client’s strategy for the delivery of modern care services.

Our knowledge and understanding of health and care facility design, underpins this activity and our aim of providing these services in such a way as to free clients’ from the burdens of property ownership/management. Whether it is managing the acquisition of a new facility, a capital investment programme, facilities management service providers, or seeking to capitalise on income generating activities, Ryhurst has the right skill and competency to deliver.

In providing this service, a feature of the Ryhurst offer is a willingness to accept risk transfer where this can be assessed. For example, in our PFI projects, Ryhurst accepts the risk associated with the assessment of lifecycle investment costs throughout a contract period. To ameliorate our risk, we actively manage the lifecycle funds producing detailed lifecycle programmes against which to monitor progress.

We also aim to utilise our commercial flair to add value. For example, the disposal of surplus assets can often be an opportunity to unlock latent value. How best to achieve this and maximise the benefits may not always be readily identifiable. Whether the aim is to raise capital, generate cross subsidy funds or secure revenue streams the commercial flair in Ryhurst and its Group sister companies will deliver the optimal solution.