The Shirley Health Partnership builds new medical centre

The firm moved due to its former headquarters, a 1970s NHS clinic, being deemed inadequate to meet patients' needs.

The new premises, an old steel portal frame supermarket building, now boasts 21 clinical rooms and a space dedicated to health education and enables the partnership to extend its services to its 15,000 patients.

Alongside GP services, the local primary care network, catering to more than 80,000 patients, will also deliver services from the medical centre.

The firm moved due to its former headquarters, a 1970s NHS PS clinic, being deemed inadequate (Image: Supplied)

Included are social prescribers, health coaches, mental health professionals, and care coordinators.

On top of this, midwives from the University Hospital Southampton, and mental health practitioners providing local Steps2Wellbeing service, will operate from the facility.

Fitting to modern environmental standards, the building holds an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) B, with a BREEAM rating categorised as 'very good'. Notably, it also received an 'excellent' rating for energy, accompanied by the installation of eight charging points for electric vehicles.

Dr Angus Ferguson, executive partner, Shirley Health Partnership, said: "It has been a long journey to get to the point of moving but it has been well worth the wait. The GP Partners are extremely pleased with our new building. It provides first rate modern healthcare accommodation for our staff and patients.

"The waiting room is beautiful and the décor and design layout calming with lots of light and space. More space will allow us the flexibility to develop our services to our patients and the community in the coming months and years. We are delighted."

The new building has seen an old steel portal frame supermarket building repurposed (Image: Supplied)

Alastair Barlow, Assura development director, said: "This has been a challenging project to work on, repurposing a centrally located, substantial vacant former supermarket to bring it back into community use.

"A project on this scale takes a great deal of coordination and teamwork from all involved to deliver it and the end result speaks for itself – a state-of-the-art medical centre fit for the future provision of Primary Care in Shirley."