Fusion established strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including NHS commissioners and providers, locality planning groups, GPs and local government organisations to build a clear understanding of current provision and planning priorities.

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The development of clinically led, service driven Strategic Estates Plans was informed by this understanding of the needs of local people and by sophisticated demand and capacity analysis and modelling, quantifying the impacts of demographic change longer term. This demonstrated the scale of the challenges facing commissioners and providers, focusing attention on solutions required.

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Assessment of capacity to deliver services and new models of integrated care along with an analysis of the facilities required, and the investment needed to deliver them, was based on these building blocks.