WORCESTER-based health and social care developer Prime has been shortlisted for three accolades at this year’s Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors West Midlands Awards. From its headquarters at Wildwood Drive it has delivered 33 healthcare projects across the region, including the new £4.5m St Johns House Medical Centre in the city. Prime has been shortlisted for its work on the Cobridge Community Health Centre in Stoke-on-Trent, which opened in 2011. This will go head-to-head with other new and regeneration projects from around the West Midlands in the regeneration, community benefit and design through Innovation categories. The winners will be announced at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre on May 15.

Steve Sprackling, development director at Prime said: “The community health centre development is an important scheme in a 15-year programme of regeneration for the area, and one which has injected new life into a once derelict site and encouraged the community to reconnect with their local health and wellbeing services. Although there is strong competition in the region, the health centre stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the most innovative new and regeneration projects in the West Midlands and we will be hoping for a win – or three – in May.”

Cobridge Community Health Centre was commissioned by NHS Stoke on Trent and delivered by Prima 200 through the Local Improvement Finance Trust programme – a public private partnership with Prime and Community Health Partnerships.