FLEETWOOD is to get a new £1million plus health centre which is expected to open by next year.
The new facility will include a walk-in ‘urgent care’ clinic for minor injuries and a completely new GPs practice and a new NHS dental practice.
With a string of other health services available under one roof, the centre will also offer extended o
pening hours from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. It will mean that some services previously provided at Blackpool Victoria Hospital can soon be offered in Fleetwood.
Dr Mark Spencer, a GP based at the Mount View doctors’ practice on London Street, is a board member of the PCT and welcomes the development.
He said: “It is fantastic news for Fleetwood. This centre will offer a wide range of health services and for the first time it will provide 12 hour-a-day health care, every day of the week.”
The North Lancashire Primary Care Trust plans to site the facility in Fleetwood town centre. Kevin McGee, the North Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust’s director of commissions, said: “It is all part of our push to help provide a more personal care for the people of Fleetwood.”
The Fleetwood centre is also likely to include a pharmacy, mental health services, sexual health advice and contraception, post-operative wound care and intravenous anti-biotic treatment.
Tenders will eventually go out to health care providers and it is expected that all the various contacts can be completed by December this year, ready for work to begin in 2009.
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