Plans are underway to renovate a Burnley health centre.

St Peter’s Centre in Church Street is one of three health centres sharing £8m. in funding from the Department of Health and Social Care.

Its share of the funding will be used to repurpose underused space in the building. The project is expected to be completed at the end of March.

The investment is part of the Government’s 10-year Plan for the NHS to create health centres that provide more services to meet community needs.

St Peter's Centre in Church Street, Burnley, is to be renovated thanks to government funding.

placeholder image — St Peter's Centre in Church Street, Burnley, is to be renovated thanks to government funding.

The ICB’s chief executive, Aaron Cummins, welcomed the funding and called it “essential” for “bringing the health centres up to date to meet the ambitions for the NHS set out in the 10-year plan.”

He added: “I was recently shown around the three health centres, and I am confident that this work will allow us to better integrate and closely align services at each site, and by relocating services from elsewhere, it will bring significant savings in costs at other sites.

“We believe that each one of these refurbishments and redesigns will make services more accessible for patients and better meet the needs of our local population.”

What will the upgrades entail?

Rearranging floors and services to improve their connectivity.
Creating a new reception area.
Creating additional bookable clinical spaces for Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board on the ground floor.
Relocating LSCFT’s Talking Therapies services to a new, redeveloped area.
Relocating Burnley East Network Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme services from two separate sites to the fourth floor.
Creating administrative and clinical spaces for additional services and providers on the seventh and ninth floors.
IT infrastructure improvements on the ground and fourth floors.