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Practices of the year
AWARDS
Physiotherapist Anne Lyall, centre, shows Neena Mahal and Ken Corsar some of the new facilities in the centre
Ribbon cut at Hamilton clinic
A new £4.6 million community health clinic in Hamilton has been officially opened in a special ceremony. Mrs Neena Mahal, chairwoman of the NHS Lanarkshire South Community Health Partnership, and Ken
Corsar, chairman of NHS Lanarkshire, cut the ribbon at the Douglas Street Community Health Clinic, which will offer community dentistry and orthodontic treatments as well as a range of other primary care services.
Two Glasgow practices picked up major accolades at a national awards ceremony held in London’s Intercontinental Hotel recently.
David Cunningham’s Spring Grove Clinic in Garrowhill was named Practice of the Year 2010
and The Scottish Centre for Excellence in Dentistry (SCED) in Govan was named Best Specialist Referral Practice at the 2010 UK Private Dentistry Awards.
Spring Grove won the prize for Best Patient Care and was run- ner-up in the Best Community or Charity Project category.
SCED was named Best Specialist Referral Practice
Three cheers for NEW SURGERY
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has officially opened a £450,000 NHS dental surgery in the Ayrshire town of Stevenston. Three Towns Dental Care opened its doors in the sum- mer but recently held a special opening ceremony where Ms Sturgeon cut the ribbon together with the practice prin- cipal’s mother. Owner Simon Morrow said: “The official opening of the practice cements our progress to date and I would like to give particu- lar thanks to Nicola Sturgeon and my mother Sheila Morrow for opening the building.
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“Our staff are looking forward to welcoming new patients and we hope the community will take full advantage of the facility.” The practice has more than 2,000 NHS registrations avail- able and, so far they have also enrolled over 200 children on the Childsmile programme. The new facility – which took two and a half years to plan, but only seven months to build – houses a dedicated Childsmile oral health education room.
Simon explained that the practice benefited from a Scottish Dental Access Initiative grant for relocation and, as well as having full
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