£22m to be spent on new 'super surgeries'

ANOTHER £22 million is to be spent on 'super surgeries' in Doncaster.

The first will be in Moor-ends, and Doncaster Primary Care Trust and Doncaster Council have also commissioned new buildings for Askern, Edlington, and Hatfield.

Outdated premises will be replaced by modern facilities housing a mixture of health services and council services.

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A single-storey medical centre will be built off Marshland Road for Dr Seth and Dr Pramanik’s practice.

Joining them will be community health staff nowhoused at the clinic on Wembley Road. Other services based there from next June will include midwifery, foot health and sexual health.

At Hatfield, a two-storey centre will be built on land alongside Hatfield Visual Arts College - the former high school - to house Dr Simmonite and Partners’ practice from next September.

Other services include foot health, midwifery, sexual health, community nursing and health visiting.

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Edlington will get a new two-storey health and social care centre next October, to be erected on wasteland close to the open-air market.

Dr Neyer and Partners, currently based at the bungalow on Bungalow Road, and Dr Zaidi, whose practice is at the health centre on Broomhouse Lane, will relocate into the centre.

There will also be Doncaster Council services, including a new public library and a community cafe. Other services will include a dental surgery and minor surgery facilities.

At Askern, a two-storey centre off Spa Road, next to the present Askern Health Centre, should be ready for December 2008. It will house Dr Kumar’s Askern Medical Practice and Dr Brophy and Partners’ Lakeside Practice.

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The four buildings, which will have a pharmacy, are the latest developments by a public-private sector partnership company called Doncaster Community Solutions, jointly owned by Doncaster PCT, Doncaster Council, Partner-ships for Health and Comm-unity Solutions for Primary Care.

Three further centres owned by the partnership have already opened in Denaby, Intake and Thorne, at a combined cost of over 14 million.

Alan Wright, chair of Don-caster Community Solutions, said: "By the end of next year we'll have seven top-quality centres serving the people of Doncaster and providing the very best facilities and services in health and community care."