The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7306 p4
3 July 2004

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More LIFT projects

Primary care trusts have been invited to bid for Local Improvement Finance Trust funding for one-stop health centres, now called “super surgeries” by the Department of Health.

The first such super surgery is expected to open in Newham, east London, in September. It will bring together on one site GPs, health visitors, dentists, a pharmacy, a cardiology clinic, X-ray facilities, optometry services, Surestart (child care resources) and a healthy living cafe.

Twenty other LIFT health centres are under construction and work is expected to begin on a further 30 projects before the end of the year.