Work on a new £11m health centre that will provide services to thousands of patients on the outskirts of Norwich is due to begin this month.
Building work on the Rackheath health hub is set to start in early August and run until Spring 2025.
It will provide essential new infrastructure to the local area, where it is expected that additional housing will be delivered over the coming months and years.
The hub will house primary medical and community services, in a building made up of 45 modules amounting to 16,000 feet of internal floor space.
It will include modernised consultation and examination rooms, community areas and district nurse facilities, as well as back office and shared space for healthcare colleagues in the centre.
The project is a partnership between NHS Norfolk & Waveney, NHS Property Services and healthcare developers Darwin Group.
Paul Higham, associate director estates at NHS Norfolk and Waveney, said the initiative would improve residents’ access to health and care services.
‘The planned hub at Rackheath will help to transform how health and care services are delivered, bringing services closer to where people live, enabling more joined-up care, and supporting residents to access information and wider services that will help them to live healthy and well,’ he said.
Barry Clark, capital manager for national major projects at NHS Property Services, described the new centre as ‘a state-of-the-art facility, that to its core, is sustainable and modern’.
‘We will be able to help health professionals deliver the care that patients deserve in space that is welcoming, sustainable and fit for purpose,’ he added.
