Approval for Sheffield £9.4m GP surgery hub plan
A £9.4 million GP surgery hub serving NHS patients in Southey and Parson Cross has taken a major step towards being built.
A meeting of Sheffield City Council’s finance committee (April 16) agreed the £9,382,566 budget for the new GP hub to be built on Wordsworth Avenue, Parson Cross. That will replace The Healthcare Surgery on Palgrave Road, Southey Green and Buchanan Road Surgery, Parson Cross.
The aim is to update overcrowded GP surgeries and have the space to offer patients a wider range of health services under one roof. The new building, described in a report to the committee as “transformational”, is funded by NHS England.
The council is delivering the scheme and will act as landlord to the new building. The SAPA Group of GPs will then lease the centre for 60 years, after which the council will own it.
Overall, the £37m scheme will also see Burngreave Surgery and Sheffield Medical Centre relocating to a new centre on Spital Street, Burngreave. The old Royal Bank of Scotland building on Church Street is being converted into a city centre GP surgery, replacing two surgeries thatare based on Mulberry Street.
The Wordsworth Avenue centre is the first to reach this stage in its approval. It is expected to be completed in 2025.
A report to the committee said that the new building will “address the challenges of the growing population that is estimated to rise from 12,265 to 13,332 up to 2041 for The Healthcare Surgery and Buchanan Road Surgery”.
