Scalloway’s new health centre is ready to welcome its first patients on the 24th August.
Scalloway’s new health centre is located in a former primary school and will provide the NHS with a custom-made facility more than three times the size of the existing surgery to cope with an ever-expanding patient list.
The Centre will house seven consulting rooms, a spacious reception area and other general office facilities.
The relocation to the new premises was brought about by an agreement between NHS Shetland and the council, with pupils already being moved from the former primary school building, paving the way for the creation of Scalloway’s new health centre.
Practice manager Elizabeth Williamson said: “It’s considerably bigger, with floor space three and a half times what we have got at the moment. The size of the consulting rooms are all very big. The ones we’ve got at the moment – we’ve got two particularly small rooms, and even the larger one … is not quite up to the spec required by the legislation.
“We’ve got a lot of storage space [in the new building]; admin space for the GPs so that they are not tying up the clinical rooms when they are doing paperwork; we’ve got the facilities we need that we haven’t had – the building we have at the moment is no longer fit for purpose.”
SIC member Mark Burgess commented: “It’s a wonderful new thing for Scalloway – a fit for purpose and spacious health centre. It’s in a different league completely from the one we’ve been accustomed to for many years. It’s a great advance for health care in the village.”
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