Burnley's new urgent care unit takes shape

4:24pm Friday 1st March 2013 in News

Construction work is well under way Construction work is well under way

BURNLEY’S £9m integrated Urgent Care Centre is taking shape.

The work, at Burnley General Hospital, is being carried out by national building firm Kier Construction and should be completed by this autumn. The site, which will be reached via the hospital’s Briercliffe Road entrance, will eventually be home to a GP out-of-hours services and a children’s minor illness unit.

Cutting the first sod in October last year, MP Gordon Birtwistle, top left, said that “90 per cent of A&E services would return” to Burnley after being controversially transferred 17 miles away to Blackburn in November 2007. The Urgent Care Centre initiative is part of wider plans by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust to phase out older buildings in favour of more up-to-date facilities.

Comments(5)

roamer says...
5:40pm Fri 1 Mar 13

It is a cheap sell out of the NHS to the people of Burnley.

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Rappide says...
8:38pm Fri 1 Mar 13

Well I for one, am really glad we are getting an A& E department back again.

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Sajdin says...
10:24pm Fri 1 Mar 13

roamer wrote:
It is a cheap sell out of the NHS to the people of Burnley.
first people complain about A&E moving out, now 90% of it is coming back, and you still complaining ?

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shabba says...
10:51pm Fri 1 Mar 13

this is a lie about 90% of Emergencies returning to Burnley to get A&E back you need an intensive care unit , Emergency operating theatres and in patient wards non of which are at Burnley anymore and are not about to be

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DaveBurnley says...
11:24am Sat 2 Mar 13

If NuLabour hadn't sold us down the river then we wouldn't be in this mess. It's better than anything we would have got under Labour.

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