New community health centres are to be built in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, and the North Lanarkshire towns of Wishaw and Kilsyth at a cost of almost £50m.
The new £19.6m Hunter Health Centre next to East Kilbride Civic Centre in Andrew Street will offer the biggest choice of medical services including six existing GP practices, a general dental practice, physiotherapy as well as mental health.
The other centre in Wishaw will cost of almost £20m, with the smaller Kilsyth Community Health Centre due to cost almost £8m.
Cross-section of Wishaw Health Centre which will be shared with North Lanarkshire Council
NHS Lanarkshire chair Neena Mahal and Chief Executive Ian Ross said: “We expect all three to be open by the summer of 2015 and we’re sure patients and staff will appreciate and enjoy the new health surroundings.”