New £7m health centre due to open

The new centre brings together a wide range of health services

A new £7m health centre is opening its doors to the public for the first time.

Services will gradually be phased in over the coming months at the Keynsham complex, which is headed by NHS Bath and North East Somerset (NHS B&NES).

Temple House GP Practice, which has relocated from Temple Court, will be the first to open in the three-storey centre.

Keynsham Clinic is also relocating to the centre bringing midwifery, health visitor, school nursing and podiatry.

One-stop shop

The clinic will also offer an NHS dentist, health promotion, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy.

Services at the Keynsham Clinic on Park Road will end on Tuesday.

Additional health services will be phased in, including a diagnostic clinic (for scans and tests), a clinical day care unit offering blood transfusions and outpatients services such as diabetes clinics, care for the elderly, cardiology and dermatology.

Rhona MacDonald, chief executive of NHS B&NES, said the centre would provide a new era of healthcare for people in the town.

"By bringing services together under roof like this people can receive the care they need in the same place without having to travel as far," she said.