New state-of-the-art health hub for Salford

Published: 2-Oct-2019

Warden Construction begins work on integrated health centre

Warden Construction has begun construction of a new £4.6m integrated health centre in the heart of Little Hulton, Salford.

The new facility, which has been funded by NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Salford Primary Care Together (SPCT), and Greater Manchester Pension Fund, will be built on vacant land in Longshaw Drive, adjacent to the current Little Hulton health centre.

Serving around 13,000 people, the centre brings together podiatry, speech and language therapy, and diabetes clinics, along with GP, smoking cessation service, and mental health services.

The new facility will feature a two-storey aluminium-clad entrance. highlighted by striking-green cladding, which contrasts the remaining grey-and-white brickwork and white concrete render elements.

Richard Kenworthy, managing director at Warden Construction, said: “This integrated health centre, designed to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, will provide welcome regeneration of land which has been vacant and overgrown for over 10 years.

“Our team has already commenced site clearance and, with a 12-month build programme ahead of us, we’re expecting to open the doors to the public by autumn 2020.”

Dr Tom Tasker, chairman of NHS Salford CCG, added: “This new health centre will give people living in Little Hulton access to high-quality, integrated services in modern and purpose-built surroundings.

“Throughout the development of these plans, the CCG and GP practices have been speaking to the local community about what they want from health and wellbeing services in the area and we’ve listened to those views.

“This new health centre is going to bring significant benefits to Little Hulton as its GP practice will be working from a much-more-modern building, as well as bringing more hospital services into the community and closer to people at home.”

The project team consists of architects, Blue Sky; WML Consulting, providing civil and structural services; and TACE acting as mechanical and electrical engineers.

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