Council welcomes NHS to Civic Centre
Tuesday 28 January 2025: Hillingdon Council is delivering more joined up services and maximising the use of council assets with the relocation from this month of NHS North West London teams to the Civic Centre in Uxbridge.
This is designed to ensure value for money for residents, while meeting their needs more effectively.
The change, which was approved by the council's Cabinet in October, will see NHS teams move onto part of a floor in the building. By working alongside the council's adult social care and children's services teams, both organisations will be able to work more collaboratively, and the new model aims to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and support quicker discharges into the community.
The relocation also forms part of the NHS's new community-based operating model for Hillingdon, which is designed to provide care closer to residents' homes with a focus on early intervention, self-management, and patient choice.
The teams relocating to the Civic Centre include: CNWL corporate teams, the CNWL senior management team, CNWL clinical service leads, the CNWL contact centre, Hillingdon Health Care Partners, the Integrated Hub management team, Clinical Community Collaborative Leads, and the Integrated Care Board team. The teams will be relocating from nearby Beaufort House and Boundary House in Uxbridge, ensuring a more centralised approach to healthcare delivery for the borough.
Cllr Jane Palmer, Hillingdon Council's Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care, said: "We are delighted to welcome our NHS partners to the Civic Centre.
"This move not only makes more efficient use of our corporate estate, generating income for the council, but also strengthens our collaboration with the NHS, supporting improved outcomes for our residents.
"By working more closely together, we are ensuring that health and care services are more accessible and responsive to local needs."
Keith Spencer, Managing Director at Hillingdon Health and Care Partners, said: "The NHS and local authority in Hillingdon have a strong track record of working in partnership at both operational and strategic levels. This next step brings the leadership of both organisations into one place at the council's Civic Centre, and illustrates our mutual commitment to the partnership and very crucially, ensuring that public funds can be steered from back office costs to front line delivery of services to patients and residents."
