DETAILED plans for a new community health centre in Upton-upon-Severn will be unveiled at a public meeting tomorrow.
The £2m project will combine a new GP surgery, dentist and optician with a range of primary health care services under one roof at Tunnel Hill.
The outline plan received an enthusiastic reception when it was first announced in July last year and has since been revised.
Delay in putting forward the final scheme was partly caused by the change from Community Health Trust to Primary Care Trust, as the PCT now provides the community nursing services that will be based at the centre.
These include district nurses, health visitors for children and the elderly, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, chiropodist and physiotherapist.
There will also be a social worker, as Upton GP surgery was the first in south Worcestershire to have a social worker based at it.
Other facilities could include an emergency room, for use at times of flood.
Dr George Wilson, senior partner in the Upton GP practice, which now has 10,500 patients, said the volume of work in primary care had increased enormously in the last few years.
The School Lane surgery has outgrown its site, having been extended 10 times since it was built in 1967. Two consulting rooms are currently housed in a portable building.
One of the stumbling blocks for building a new surgery was the lack of a suitable site outside the flood plain, but still close to the town centre.
The chosen location, at the junction of Tunnel Hill and the old road, is a green field site and part of it is subject to flooding.
The Environment Agency has lodged a holding objection to the plan, pending further information.
Architect Peter Icke, of Gould Singleton Partnership, which drew up the plans, said the building would not be on the flood plain.
"The building is different in shape and size from the outline plan and we have moved it further up the hill," he said.
Funds for the project will be raised by a company formed by the GP practice, dentist, optician and PCT, with rent from the users being used to repay the mortgage.
"People seem to think it is money being thrown at us by the government, but that is not true," said Dr Wilson.
Tomorrow's meeting in Upton Memorial Hall, which starts at 7.30pm, will give Upton people an opportunity to see and comment on the latest proposals before they are considered by Upton Town Council and Malvern Hills District Council.
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