GEHE's property arm opens health centre in Scotland
GEHE HCS, a subsidiary of GEHE UK, has opened its first health centre
in Scotland.
The Woodstock health centre, Lanark, is one of seven primary care centres
the company is opening across the United Kingdom in the near future, with
a further 40 projects in the pipeline (PJ, 7 July 2001, p5).
As currently constituted, the Woodstock health centre will include eight
general practitioners, with practice and community nursing services and
treatment rooms. A pharmacy is planned for the future. GEHE intends to
build the health centres and then lease them to GPs and primary care trusts,
which are reimbursed under the National Health Service cost-rent scheme.
A multi-practice primary care centre, to be opened at Stretford, Manchester,
on 4 December, will include seven GPs in three partnerships, PCT services,
social services, a Lloydspharmacy pharmacy and an internet café.
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