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Plans for huge new health centre for more than 13,000 residents finally lodged after 15-year battle

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Plans for a new health centre which will serve more than 13,000 Oldham residents have officially been lodged after more than 15 years of campaigning.

Funding for a replacement centre to serve Shaw and Crompton had been confirmed by the borough’s clinical commissioning group (CCG) in December last year.

However in April the CCG had told a GP partner it was ‘withdrawing’ its support of the development due to increases in ‘costs and inflation’ triggered by the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.

But by June it had announced that it was committed to bringing the project forward, with Mike Barker, the accountable officer saying they had a ‘new deal which is fantastic news for patients and the local area’.

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