Basingstoke: Chineham Park attracts NHS group

NHS North Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the GP-led group responsible for planning and buying health services across north Hampshire, has moved to new offices in Chineham Park, Basingstoke. 

Lisa Briggs, CCG’s chief operating officer, said: “Our main reason for the move was that we needed the extra space for our 40 or so members of staff to be together on one site. We also needed some rooms to be able to hold our governing body meetings in public, without going to the expense of hiring venues and using public money which would be better allocated to health.”

The CCG, which went live as a standalone organisation on April 1, is responsible for commissioning health services for 216,000 people in an area covering 316 sq miles which includes Basingstoke, Hook, Hartley Wintney, Odiham and Alton. It has 21 member GP practices.

Briggs continued: "We were also using up the car parking space at Old Basing Health Centre and were conscious that this was probably inconveniencing patients. Our new office in Central 40, Chineham Park, has plenty of parking and all the facilities we need.

“As an NHS organisation we are pleased to be occupying a building that is eco-friendly and has good communication links with all parts of North Hampshire. It is important to us to be accessible to both our membership and the general public alike.”

For Chineham Park, this new customer is the first-ever NHS organisation to take space on the park. Managing director Rupert Batho explained: "The CCG has grown quickly and we are pleased to be able to provide the room it needs to answer its responsibilities successfully."