In October NHS Doncaster was given the ‘green light’ to build a new £8 million health care centre in Doncaster town centre. The new ‘super surgery’ is set to be the biggest of its kind in the Doncaster area.
The £8 million Town Hub project, at four storeys high, will be a landmark development for Doncaster, situated at the corner of Trafford Way and Cleveland Street and close to the interchange and railway station. Current buildings on the site will be demolished to make way for the futuristic design, which will host a wide range of family doctor and other services. It will eventually be the permanent home for Doncaster’s 8am to 8pm health centre, which is open every day of the year and currently based in temporary accommodation at Devonshire House, South Parade.
Building work is expected to start in early 2010 and be completed in Autumn 2011. When completed, it will bring to nine the number of new health centres built in the Doncaster area through the NHS LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) programme since 2006, with many of them housing community and social care facilities as well.