Raising the roof celebration at new medical centre

A Â£4.5 million state-of-the -art medical centre is on target to open its doors in Pulborough on August 13, following nine years of planning.

By The Newsroom

Published 2nd May 2007, 12:44 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:51 BST

On Friday a 'raising the roof ceremony celebrated progress in the scheme and guests were able to see the basic building which will bring a wide range of facilities under one roof to the site in London Road.

The former Spiro Gills site, which the new centre will share with Tesco, a 60-bed nursing home and some housing, was the third to be looked at by Pulborough Medical Group, formed from the merging of two doctors' practices in the village.

Explained Liz Coulthard,executive manager of the group:" The idea was first mooted in 1998 and the new centre will be used by nine doctors in the group, while all the health visitors and community nurses previously housed in the village hall will be on the ground floor. An out of hours service operated by West Sussex doctors will serving the surrounding area, when surgeries are closed."

For full story see West Sussex Gazette May 2