Clwyd West AM and Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar has welcomed today’s Welsh Government announcement of funding for a new primary care centre in Colwyn Bay that will serve over 18,000 patients.

Work is scheduled to begin on site in early 2014 and the Primary Care Centre should be ready to receive its first patients by April 2015.　

The new facility is being developed on the site of the former Conway Road Primary School, which closed last year, and will serve Patients who are currently registered with Rysseldene Surgery, on Conway Road, and Rhoslan Surgery, on Pwllycrochan Avenue

Darren said:

"This is a very welcome, but long overdue announcement.

"I’ve been working with the GPs and their developer Haven Health Properties to move this project forward for a number of years. It has been frustrating at times, particularly given the uncertainty earlier this year when the Health Minister announced that the delivery of all new primary care facilities would be postponed.

"Patients in Colwyn Bay deserve to have access to modern primary care facilities which are fit for the 21st Century and that is just what this project will provide.

"Whilst there was a great deal of disappointment in 2011 when Conway Road Infants School closed it’s doors to pupils in 2011 so its great to see the site coming back into public use in this way.

"I look forward to seeing the site transformed in the coming months."

Picture caption: Clwyd West AM Darren Millar 　with Dr Conor 　Close of Rhoslan Surgery looking at the plans for the new medical centre in Colwyn Bay.