Opportunity to hear about new centre at open day
ARI emergency care plans to be revealed
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Plans for NHS Grampian’s £95million emergency care centre will be revealed on Tuesday.
NHS staff will give presentations and answer questions on the five-storey centre, which will bring together the accident and emergency department, acute medical assessment unit, ward accommodation and the out-of-hours service G-Med under one roof at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
The building will be located next to the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and the existing accident and emergency department which will be demolished once the new centre is built.
Project manager Milne Weir hoped large numbers of people would turn up at the open day at Satrosphere Science Centre on Aberdeen’s Constitution Street.
He said: “The centre will provide a better experience for patients who need emergency and urgent care services. Early diagnosis will result in quicker treatment, and better co-ordination of services will reduce the time patients have to wait.
“There will also be improved learning opportunities for them in all aspects of emergency and urgent care.”
Work begins on the site in early 2009 and it is hoped patients will be treated there from late 2011.
For further information about the open day, which will run from 12.30pm to 6.30pm with presentations at 1.30pm, 3.30pm and 5.30pm, contact Sandra Harper on 01224 558813.
