A new health and wellbeing clinic is set to open in Countesswells next week to serve the new community.
The Wisely Place facility will start operating on 3 March to serve the needs of the new and still emerging 3,000-home Countesswells housing development.
The clinic will house two consulting rooms, a public waiting area, a fully accessible public toilet, a staff toilet and staff room, and clinical waste and cleaners’ stores.
Services will all be provided by Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP), following the Community Treatment and Care (CTAC) model. These will include child immunisation, health visiting, venepuncture, chronic disease management, suture and staple removal, blood pressure testing and diabetic foot screening.
The services were selected using a scoring process to pinpoint what the community will most need. The predominant demographic of the new Countesswells community is younger people and families with children, which led to a special emphasis being placed on health visiting and child immunisations.
A screen will be provided in the waiting area which will show a range of public health messages at the 31 Wisely Place property, which is a commercial unit fully upgraded to clinical standards.
Countesswells Health & Wellbeing Clinic will be open Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm, with services provided by appointment only.
Services operating from the building will be timetabled to ensure they run at the most beneficial times during the week for patients. The system has been designed to be flexible, to provide the most patient benefit – and so, over time, changing circumstances may see services adapt in line with patient needs..
The unit was purchased by NHS Grampian through capital funding and has been fully kitted out to provide a fit-for-purpose, modern and welcoming facility, using developer obligations as part of the Local Authority planning process.
ACHSCP Chief Officer Fiona Mitchellhill said: “I am delighted to see this new CTAC clinic opening in Countesswells, where it will provide vital services to a new and growing community.
“Nurse-led CTAC clinics have been opening across Aberdeen since summer 2022 and have proved to be popular with patients. They offer a specialist range of services, tailored to each community’s needs, which have traditionally been provided in GP surgeries.
“CTAC clinics help take the pressure off our hard-working GP practices and give patients easy access to expertly trained nursing staff for assessment and treatment. They are a new way of delivering vital care, with patients able to see the right person, at the right place, at the right time – and the new Countesswells clinic will be another important asset.”