HSE HASN’T SAID WHERE METHADONE CLINIC WILL BE ACCOMMODATED

WITH work to start on a new primary care centre in July, the HSE has not confirmed where an addiction centre will be accommodated.

The clinic has been located on the site for approximately 10 years. It and the Old Folks Centre which provides meals on wheels will both need temporary facilities during the works.

The new primary care centre, on the site of the former Orchard nursing home on Killarney Road, is expected to be fully up and running by mid-2019.

Services currently operating at the Civic Centre facility off Bray Main Street include speech therapy, antenatal and postnatal care, dentistry and other treatments and they are expected to be moved to the primary care centre when it opens.

Planning permission for the new primary care centre was granted in March 2016.

The nursing home closed down in 2009, amid some controversy, and has been vacant since then.

An Bord Pleanála has granted Bray Primary Care Limited permission to demolish the Bray Old Folks Facility, the disused nursing home, and an existing two-storey over-basement clinic on the site.

The planned centre will include HSE facilities, two GP clinics, a new Bray Old Folks facility, a pharmacy, two retail units, a café, and a separate single-storey medical centre. The total planned development floor area is 5,017 square metres.

Meanwhile, in Greystones, the HSE are working to move to stage three of developing a primary care centre. Interested parties with viable submissions will be requested to submit priced offers. Depending on the outcome of the selection process, it is expected that a preferred provider will be selected within in the next few months and that works will have commenced on a new Primary Care Centre in Greystones within the next 2 years.

The HSE had not answered questions regarding the addiction clinic in Bray at the time of going to press.