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Snells Beach Medical Centre will soon make way for a major new medical facility, which will see several different kinds of health practitioners operating from the same location.
It’s anticipated the new hub will open in July or August this year.
The facility, which is tentatively being called the Snells Beach Medical Hub, will provide rooms for up to 40 practitioners, which will likely include general practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, audiologists physiotherapists and other visiting specialists.
The hub will be located on the site of the existing centre on Dalton Road, but, at 800 square metres, will be eight times larger.
The existing centre will be demolished to make way for a car park for the new complex.
The centre will also feature a nurse triage area, an ambulance bay and possibly a café.
The hub is the brainchild of developers Hifazal and Furisha Haniff, and has been 10 years in the making.
Hifazal and Furisha Haniff discuss plans for the new medical hub with Dr Kate Baddock, centre, senior partner with Kawau Bay Health.
Hifazal says the current centre is almost 30 years old and can no longer cater for the population growth in the area.
He anticipates the new hub will be able to serve Snells Beach for many years to come.
Furisha says the new hub will lead to better access to health care and, therefore, better health outcomes for patients.
Hifazal has previously developed two residential developments in Warkworth, but this will be his first commercial development.
Furisha, who is also a pharmacist, will manage a pharmacy at the hub. She previously owned the Warkworth Medical Pharmacy and says it will be great to be back reconnecting with former customers.
“The pharmacy will be state-of-the-art and will provide a full range of services,” she says.
