LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trusts) projects are a UK Government initiative to create long-term public-private sector partnerships that provide new and improved facilities for health and social care at a local level. Typical services include GP practices, chiropody, speech and language therapy, community nursing, dental surgery and family planning.
The framework arrangements give the Project Entity the exclusive right to develop further primary healthcare facilities in the agreed geographical area subject to periodic market testing of key services. Five facilities in four different tranches have been developed to date with four financial closes between July 2004 and September 2010.