Spring Start for Integrated Care Development
BUILDING will start during spring at the Bobbin Mill site in Pitlochry which will deliver modern, purpose-built medical care facilities including hospital, GP surgery and care home with a planned completion in autumn 2007.
Planning permission has been obtained for the medical facilities and it is hoped permission will be granted for the care home before summer.
NHS Tayside is working in partnership with Toberargan Practice, Perth & Kinross Council and Medical Centres Scotland to help deliver this first class facility for the people of Pitlochry and north west Perthshire.
Welcoming the progress, MSP for north Tayside John Swinney said: “This has been a visionary and complex project and it is wonderful to see the full potential being realised with the inclusion of the care home. I am absolutely delighted that after years of careful and persistent preparation, there will be a care home available for my elderly constituents in Highland Perthshire. |
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“This will add an essential element to the provision of care home services in Highland Perthshire and I congratulate NHS Tayside and Perth & Kinross Council for their effective co-operation to deliver this project which includes a care home.”
The Friends of Irvine Memorial Hospital also welcomed the news saying, “We are extremely pleased that the efforts of so many have finally resulted in the provision of facilities to match the excellent care given to our community by our nurses and doctors.
“We look forward to continuing our support at the new hospital and are grateful that we have been included at all stages throughout the planning process.
“Plans are already underway for the new Therapeutic Garden, hospital radio in conjunction with Heartland Radio, and several other projects which the Friends hope to fund”.
Alan Jack of Medical Centres Scotland said, “Provided planning consent is granted and the commercial and legal documentation completed by Easter, construction of the care home will begin in the summer. The whole development is programmed to finish at the same time in autumn 2007.”
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