Cobridge Community Health Centre
Work started in June last year on a new £14m health centre in Cobridge which is due to open ilater in 2011.
The Elder Road development will include a state of the art 2,665 sq m community health centre and a purpose built 1,668 sq m integrated sexual health unit, which will provide a range of specialist services benefiting communities across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire.
The new three storey community health centre will bring together three local GP practices with a combined patient list of 11,000. They are:
- Dr Parikh of Sneyd Green Surgery
- Dr Pathak whose surgery is based in Waterloo Road, Burslem
- and the Apsley House surgery also based in Waterloo Road
The building will also include a wide range of health services including:
- District nursing, health visiting, school nursing
- Adult physiotherapy, podiatry, occupational therapy and speech therapy
- Integrated sexual health unit including Genito-urinary medicine (GUM), contraception and Chlamydia screening
- A pharmacy (Lloyds Pharmacy has been awarded the contract to provide HIV services in addition to a 100 hour community pharmacy within the new Cobridge Community Health Centre. The decision to award the HIV service contract was agreed on the 8th July 2011 and the 100 hour control of entry application was approved on the 10th August 2011. The development is due to open later in 2011.)
- A chest clinic and other outpatient services
- Specialist out-patients clinics
- X-ray
Designed by healthcare specialists ‘One Creative Environments,’ both buildings are shaped to reflect the local urban landscape, with design sympathetic to the Victorian Christ Church situated nearby.
The site will also benefit from extensive landscaping and planting to provide additional ‘green’ environmental space in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent. Each of the two buildings will also incorporate a range of environmental features to maximise their efficiency and minimise waste.
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