Work has started work on a new state of the art £2.4 million medical centre for Chirk.
Award-winning builders Anwyl Construction plan to complete the project on the town’s Colliery Road in March next year.
The new eco-friendly Medical Centre will replace the Chirk Surgery’s current premises in Castle Road and will feature a number of sophisticated ‘green’ features, including photo-voltaic solar panels and an advanced drainage system.
The two-storey steel-framed building is the first purpose-built surgery to be built in North Wales for leading healthcare building specialists Matrix Medical and will include a minor operations facility and a pharmacy as well as being the base for the Chirk Surgery.
They currently operate from Castle Road, Chirk, and carry out surgeries at St Martin’s and Weston Rhyn.
Birmingham-based Matrix Medical have built 42 similar surgeries across England and South Wales but this is their first venture into North Wales and Managing Director Alistair Blacklaws said: “We were appointed by the surgery because we specialise in this type of provision.
“It is our job to find a suitable site, organise the design, obtain planning permission and appoint a construction company and we have worked with architects and builders and with Wrexham County Borough Council and the Betsi Cadwalader University Health Trust.
“The Council offered us a site which had been cleared several years ago and have been very helpful throughout.
“It is purpose-built and meets all NHS standards and it is future-proofed as well so there is no need to extend it every five years and it has extra capacity to cater for additional services as the focus of care moves to primary, community-based care.
Anwyls came with a very good track record and reputation and we have worked closely with them and they have performed very well and we’re very happy with the way the work is progressing.”
Matrix Medical has completed 40 medical centre projects across England and Wales to date. The most recent one was Severn Fields Health Village, Shrewsbury, which completed last year
Anwyl Director Tom Anwyl said: “We’re delighted to be working with Matrix Medical on such a specialist building which will play a huge part in the life of the local community here in Chirk for many years to come.
“It is a major project with over 2000 square metres of space and specialist provision for a pharmacy and other health services as well as the surgery as well as capacity for additional healthcare provision in the future.
“It is a prestigious project and a good example of how private finance can provide public services.”
Chirk Surgery GP Partner Dr Brian Johnson said: “’We are very pleased that building work is finally under way and look forward to being able to continue to offer first class medical treatment in a modern, purpose-built and spacious environment.
“Patients can look forward to improved access and comfort and at last no stairs to the consulting rooms.”
