WORK on a new "state-of-the-art" health centre is set to start this month.
Worthing's new health centre, The Worthing Integrated Care Centre, will be able to help with a wide range of health care issues.
The centre, which will cost £34 million to build, will combine doctors, mental health specialists, outpatients, health visitors, chemists and services for families and children.
It will be located where the car park at the back of the Town Hall in Chapel Road is, and the existing Central Clinic site will be demolished to make way for the new facility.
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Along with the health care centre, a new multi-storey car park for 186 cars is also to be built next to it. The building project for the health centre and car park is to be funded by Worthing Borough Council through borrowing £34m, which will be recouped through rent and income.
On October 25, the car park will close to allow council chosen building contractors Galliford Try to access the site to begin preparatory work.
Work is expected to take up to two years, and the council, working with NHS partners, expects the centre to provide a range of integrated community health care services rather than the present situation where such help is across the borough.
Cllr Sean McDonald said: " "I am proud that the council is laying the foundation for this innovative project, putting money up front fund a state-of-the-art building that will give medical services excellent facilities to deliver first-class health care for residents.
"Bringing community health services together under one roof improves efficiency and outcomes for users and allows professionals to learn from each other to the benefit of those users.
"It is fantastic news that work is about to get under-way."
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