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Speech therapy jobs to be created in Tunstall

Thursday 26th November 2009

Planning permission has been granted for a project that will lead to the creation of speech therapy jobs.

NHS Stoke-on-Trent is to begin work on a multi-million pound health centre in Tunstall, Stoke and Staffordshire paper the Sentinel reports.

Due to be completed next December, the facility will offer local people a range of services in addition to speech therapy, including physiotherapy, podiatry and phlebotomy.

Commenting on the proposals, project manager Sandra Jones said: "This is part of the [primary care trust's] programme for modernising health care premises in Stoke-on-Trent. It will be a two-storey facility to be developed by Dransfield Properties."

Meanwhile, Graham Urwin, chief executive of NHS Stoke-on-Trent - which employs over 1,500 workers and operates with an annual budget of £410 million - added that the new centre is the beginning of a "new era" for healthcare in Tunstall.

It will have major benefits for the people in the surrounding area, he claimed.

Written by Mathew Horton