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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Morgan Sindall PLC\n02 July 2007\n\nMorgan Sindall plc\n\nMorgan Sindall JV awarded Bury, Tameside & Glossop NHS LIFT\n\n\n\nConstruction and urban regeneration group Morgan Sindall plc as part of\nCommunity Solutions for Primary Care (CSPC), a joint venture between Morgan\nSindall Investments and Barclays European Infrastructure Fund, has achieved\nfinancial close on the Bury, Tameside & Glossop NHS LIFT (Local Improvement\nFinance Trust) project to build and develop a network of community health and\nsocial care facilities over the next 20 years. The new purpose-built centres for\nthe Bury, Tameside and Glossop areas, are part of a new wave of 'super\nsurgeries' opening up for NHS patients across the country under NHS LIFT public\nprivate partnerships.\n\n\n\nTogether with Bury Primary Care Trust, Tameside & Glossop Primary Care Trust and\nPartnerships for Health, CSPC has formed a public private partnership company\ncalled Bury, Tameside & Glossop Community Solutions Limited (BTGCS). BTGCS has\nsigned a 20-year strategic partnering agreement to build and maintain a network\nof new health and social care premises in the Bury, Tameside & Glossop areas.\n\n\n\nBluestone, Morgan Sindall's construction business, will design and build the\nfirst wave of two facilities in Ashton and Radcliffe with construction due to\nstart immediately and will sign a framework agreement for future centres which\nis expected to be worth approximately £65 million over an initial five-year\nperiod.\n\n\n\nCSPC currently has similar long-term partnering agreements with four NHS LIFT\nprojects in Barnsley, Doncaster, South East Hampshire and Camden and Islington\nwhere Bluestone is also the construction partner.\n\n\n\nPaul Smith, Morgan Sindall's Group Chief Executive said:\n\n\n\n'The award of this framework - our fifth NHS LIFT scheme so far - not only\nstrengthens our position as a leading player in the delivery of these new super\nsurgeries, but also demonstrates our commitment to growing our business in the\nUK's health sector.'\n\n\n\n 2 July 2007\n\n\n\nEnquiries:\nMorgan Sindall plc Tel: 020 7307 9200\nPaul Smith, Chief Executive\nDavid Mulligan, Finance Director\n\n\nCollege Hill Tel: 020 7457 2020\nMatthew Smallwood\n\n\n\nNOTES TO EDITORS\n\nMorgan Sindall plc, the construction and urban regeneration group, has four\n...