Cinderford Medical Centre
The existing Health Centre housed 2 GP practices, (Forest Health Care and Dockham Road Surgery) together with additional CCG services and is located within Cinderford town centre adjacent the shopping area on Dockham Road. It consists of a single storey flat roofed building with patient and shoppers car parking to the front.
Serving in excess of 14,000 patients, the surgeries are expecting patient numbers to increase by 5-7000 in the next 10 years given the proposed house building programme adopted by The Local Authority. The existing building was unable to cope with the present patient numbers and therefore a new premises was required.
After numerous “testing” of various sites both in town and out, it was agreed that the new BREEAM “Excellent” rated medical centre should stay as close to the Town Centre as possible and after extensive searches a section of land off Valley Road was shortlisted as the best location.
The existing derelict industrial area is set to be regenerated into new housing and the new surgery will sit comfortably within residential areas between the existing and new housing zones. The medical centre is composed of two clinical wings one for each practice adjoined by a double height waiting and administrative zone. The building intends to allow maximum natural light penetration into the populated spaces creating an environmentally friendly and pleasant space to work and visit.
Our clients, Assura PLC are supporters of Dementia UK and in line with their commitment, they enrolled the help of The Dementia Services Design Centre, University of Stirling to help oversee and guide where necessary order to provide the first accredited Dementia friendly GP surgery in the UK.
The final Accreditation meeting is to be held October 2021.