Health Centre

The new health centre to be built on Buckshaw is still in the planning stages and planning will hopefully be complete by Winter 2011, with building work beginning Spring 2012. 

The centre will essentially be a GP practice, which will house four doctors and a district nurse. It will provide community services such as district nursing, health visiting, phlebotomy, podiatry and physiotherapy. The doctors surgery will be operated by Buckshaw Village Surgery, currently housed in The Lodge, Oakbridge Retirement Village, Buckshaw. Dr Muttucumaru, Dr Nawrooz and their team started practising from this temporary accommodation on the 1st July 2009.

Dr Muttucumaru commented, 'I am delighted to have been awarded the contract for the new GP services for Buckshaw Village and the surrounding area. We want to provide a high quality, person-focused and friendly service that gives people in the area better access to medical advice and treatment'.

Currently 1,100 people have signed up to the practice. For more information and how to register as a patient with the practice, click here.

The centre will also benefit from a dental surgery which plans to have three dentists and a dental hygienist. The dentistry service will be operated by ADP Dentistry and you can register your interest in becoming a patient at ADP Buckshaw with their Leyland branch on 01772 432337.

Below are pictures of what the new Health Centre will look like.