The new Kilsyth Community Health Centre was officially opened on Tuesday 24 November by the Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health, Jamie Hepburn MSP.

The Minister was joined by NHS Lanarkshire chair Neena Mahal.

Jamie Hepburn said: “The new Kilsyth Community Health Centre marks the culmination of a lot of hard work by the project team to bring this excellent new facility to the local community.

“It will bring together a host of services under one roof leading to more joined-up and seamless primary care services.

Neena Mahal said: “I would like to thank everyone who contributed to bringing this centre to fruition, including all our partners such as hub South West Scotland Limited, Graham Construction and members of the public who were involved in the design process.

“However, the resource which best compliments it is the skill, care and commitment of the staff as it’s their skill and care which allows us to get the best out of any new facility and provide better health care for local people.”

Chief executive Calum Campbell added: “As modern health care evolves to enable the delivery of health and social care services in community settings, this new state of the art facility will allow our health care staff to enhance the first class care they already provide to the people of Kilsyth.”

Janice Hewitt, chief accountable officer for the North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said: “Our aim is to provide the right support at the right time in the right place and this fantastic facility is part of a raft of resources that is ideally equipped to help us achieve this.”

The centre is part of a £43million partnership between NHS Lanarkshire and hub South West Scotland Limited which has delivered three new centres in Lanarkshire, the others being the new Houldsworth Centre in Wishaw and Hunter Community Health Centre in East Kilbride.