The long-awaited development of a new Health Centre is starting to move ahead.

The County Council owns the Croft Meadow care home site next to the Health Centre and our development plans for the Health Centre were deferred whilst the County Council went through a process to decide on the future of the home. Now a new care home is to be built on the same site.

Horsham and Chanctonbury Primary Care Trust owns the Health Centre site & now has two options for a new building. One is to develop a stand-alone Health Centre on the existing site. The other is to build on the adjacent site when the new care home is built, possibly linking the two new buildings to make best use of land. There are pros and cons of each which must be explored before a decision is made.

The new Health Centre will be more than twice the size of the current building with extra modern facilities and services. A Project Team chaired by Dr Noren has started work on detailed requirements including assessing all costs such as construction, rent & new services. The Wilson Memorial Trust proposes to finance and own the new Health Centre building, leasing It back to the PCT and GP's, and to fund additional non-NHS services for the community.

There are many hoops to jump through to get NHS approval for a building project and if all goes according to plan we could finally see a new Health Centre open In 2006/2007.

The Primary Care Trust, GP's & the Wilson Trust are actively working together, talking to architects, cost consultants & developers. Please be reassured that as soon as we have a drawing this will be shared with other community groups & patients - hopefully not before too long!

Jennie Musgrove
Project Co-ordinator
01903 816924

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