Health centre site approved
PLANS for a £14 million health centre have been approved.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council's planning officers have supported the PCT development for land off Elder Road, in Cobridge.
The new complex will bring three GP practices together and offer a range of additional health services from diagnostic testing and physiotherapy, to health care for asylum seekers.
The three-story unit is due to open in the summer of 2011, four years after health officials went out to consultation on whether to site it there or on Festival Park, Etruria.
It will serve up to 100,000 patients.
Resident Bernard Wragg, a tireless campaigner for the new health care centre, which will be funded through a public-private partnership, said: "I am over the moon to see the proposals going through.
"The residents have worked so hard in conjunction with NHS Stoke-on-Trent over the last few years and it is fantastic news to see the plans moving on to the next stage."
Comments
by terence andrews, sneyd grreen
Friday, November 06 2009, 2:14PM
“this health centre is only wanr=ted by the residents of cobridge, for confirmation of this please ask the patients of sneyd strret surgery. wow i can not wait to sit in the waiting rom looking at a man or woman? with their face covered. time to change doctors i think.”