WORK has started on the provision of additional screening capacity and clinical rooms at Warrington’s Bath Street Health and Wellbeing Centre.
It will provide a huge boost for breast screening services in Warrington offering a range of integrated health and social care services in one state-of-the-art building.
The five-storey health centre, built in 2012, includes including GP practices, dental services, physiotherapy, and a pharmacy.
It already provides breast screening services to the local community but with a growing local population, it has been earmarked for £900,000 of investment to further expand services and facilities
The improvement works will help to create a second breast screening room, allowing the centre to screen even more local patients.
Locating breast screening services into a modern, purpose-built clinical environment, and a building that is fully accessible with better transport and parking options, will also significantly improve patient experience.
Vacant office and meeting room space in the Bath Street building will be transformed to create new clinical rooms for staff to use, helping to support increased delivery of patient services. Easing the pressure on local hospitals -The increased provision of breast screening services and additional clinical capacity at Bath Street will allow local residents to access crucial care in a more convenient community building.
The Bath Street improvement works bring together Community Health Partnerships, Renova, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Construction work is expected to be completed in May.
Ian Butterworth from Renova said: “Bath Street already plays a vital role in supporting the wellbeing of local residents but we are always looking for ways that we can increase and improve the facilities available to patients. By creating more breast screening capacity, more clinical space for staff to use, and a better experience for patients, the improvement works now underway at Bath Stree twill be a huge boost to local residents at such an important time for community health.”
Libby Doherty, portfolio manager at CHP, said: “This project has been very exciting to be involved in from concept to delivery
“.Not only will we have decreased the void at the site to create new accessible breast screening rooms for Warrington and Halton Teaching Trust, we will have moved a vital service into the community which will offer a more central location for patients to visit for screening. “
