According to its architects, Maber, the Corby Urgent Care Centre is “the first of its kind, providing a combination of primary and emergency care facilities in a community-focused building that patients and staff agree is friendly, welcoming, and ‘unlike a hospital’.”
Since it opened in February 2013, the Centre has almost doubled its visitor targets, and helped take NHS Corby CCG into the top 10 per cent of performers in England for (lower) A&E attendance. The architects report.
Based in the heart of a residential area, the Corby Urgent Care Centre bridges the gap between primary care and emergency services – bringing care closer to home.
Sir Bruce Keogh KBE, national medical director of NHS England, described the new Urgent Care Centre (UCC) in Northamptonshire as an ‘exemplar’ project. Speaking at the Centre’s official opening ceremony last August, Sir Bruce said: “The UCC has good architecture that makes people feel at home. It doesn’t feel like an NHS building.” He added that, in his view, the Centre represented ‘the future of the health service’. “The NHS is under scrutiny to see how we will make improvements,” he said. “My challenge to others is to visit this centre and see how it’s done.”
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