GBP8 Mboost for Health Care in Communities Partick, Drumchapel and Springburn Targeted for New Facilities
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 15:00 CST
By BRIAN CURRIE Political Editor
HEALTH care in Glasgow was given an GBP8million boost today.
Partick, Drumchapel and Springburn will benefit from the cash announced by Health Minister Andy Kerr.
Partick Centre for Community Health, in the second phase of its development, will get GBP2.9m to provide accommodation for an integrated adult community mental health team, an integrated children's services team, new accommodation for a GP practice and additional dental facilities.
Drumchapel Integrated Child and Family Centre will receive GBP2.8m for a multi-agency new build project involving the city council, Glasgow Alliance, the new Housing Association and One Plus.
Springburn Health Centre will benefit from GBP2.6m to improve GP, community pharmacy and treatment room services and new sexual health services and facilities for teaching and training.
The cash, from the Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme, is part of a GBP27m Scotland-wide package aimed at delivering health improvements in deprived areas.
Mr Kerr said: "The vast majority of our healthcare is already delivered in the community - in local health centres, GPs surgeries and pharmacies.
He said the Scottish Executive policy statement Delivering for Health claimed there was potential for improvements in patient care by bringing more services into the community and stimulating joint working with local authorities and other public agencies.
He said: "This programme supports a wide range of infrastructure projects.
"These range from promoting the wellbeing of young children and their families in a deprived urban community to introducing new integrated ways of caring for the elderly in a rural community.
"They all have one thing in common - they are aimed at providing better and quicker health services for patients in their own communities."
Other projects which will benefit from the funding include - in NHS Ayrshire and Arran, the Kilbirnie Local Resource Centre, GBP1.1m; Fullarton Community Health House, Irvine, GBP346,000; Cumnock Resource Centre, GBP488,000; Crosshouse Resource Centre, GBP1.98m.
NHS Lanarkshire will get GBP2.5m for an integrated Health and Social Care Centre at Kilsyth and in Argyll and Clyde the Medical Centre, Bunessan, Isle of Mull, almost GBP1.2m.
The cash announced today is part of a GBP65m modernisation plan over the next two years.
Source: Evening Times; Glasgow (UK)
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