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Fishponds Primary Care Centre

Beechwood Road, Fishponds, BS16 3TD

The Fishponds Health Centre was overcrowded, extremely busy and totally inadequate for the range of primary and community care services provided there. No space was available within the building to allow for the future expansion of services and many parts of the building were in need of major repair or replacement.
The centre housed two General Practices serving approximately 24,200 patients as well as district nurses, health visitors, speech and language therapists and community-based midwives.
Services provided at the Health Centre included general medical services, ante and post natal clinics, mother and baby clinics, family planning sessions, podiatry, welfare rights advisory services and drugs counselling.

These services have all now been transferred into the new Fishponds Primary Care Centre. The new Primary Care Centre has been built on the existing site and will provide improved facilities for existing staff, with scope for increased numbers, as well as a pharmacy and additional clinic rooms.

The benefits in terms of the outputs that will flow from the new facility include improvements to access times and multi-disciplinary working. The accommodation is modern and meets statutory regulations as well as providing scope for the transfer of secondary care services out of hospitals to a local setting.

Timetable

	Construction Start Date	10th May 2004
Phase 1	Build first wing of new Primary Care Centre to accommodate services from the existing health centre	Completion June 2005
Phase 2	Demolish existing health centre and build second wing of the building a new car park for patients and visitors	Completion April 2006
Phase 3	Move some services from temporary positions in phase 1 building to final positions in phase 2	Complete May 2006

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