The Catterick Integrated Care Centre (CICC), based within Catterick Garrison, the largest British Army base, is a collaboration between the NHS and the Ministry of Defence, and the first of its kind in the UK.
Once operational in 2026, the centre will have the capacity to treat up to 1,000 patients each day and will be staffed by 300 medical professionals from both organisations.
How the outside of the Integrated Care Centre could look (Image: Defence Medical Services Crown copyright/PA Wire) Designed as a model for integrated healthcare delivery, the facility will offer a wide array of primary, community, and specialist services all under one roof.
These include urgent GP care, mental health support, physiotherapy, paediatrics, trauma and orthopaedic clinics, diabetes care, cardiac rehabilitation, and rehabilitation services for injured personnel.
Construction began earlier this year after the business case received final approval.
A look at how the inside of the NHS care centre will look (Image: Ministry of Defence /PA Wire) The steel frame of the three-storey, E-shaped building is now complete, with external cladding and roof work underway.
Located on a 10-acre site near the camp centre roundabout, the development will also feature 169 staff and 229 visitor parking spaces, a linear park, a community and sensory garden, and an arboretum.
The facility will house the relocated Harewood Medical Practice as well as a wide range of NHS and local authority services including speech and language therapy, audiology, podiatry, ophthalmology, pain management, imaging and diagnostics, nutrition and dietetics, antenatal services, continence support, and drug and alcohol treatment clinics.
Screening programmes such as retinal and abdominal aortic aneurysm checks will also be available.
The entrance to the NHS integrated care centre (Image: Ministry of Defence /PA Wire) Rishi Sunak, the MP for Richmond, who has supported the project from its inception, said the development represents the single biggest healthcare investment in the region and praised it for bringing services closer to communities in Catterick, Colburn, Richmond, and the Dales.
He also noted that the new campus would meet the growing demand caused by an expanding military population and associated new housing developments.
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Colonel Tariq Ahmad, regional clinical director of Defence Primary Healthcare (North), described the centre as “a coordinated approach to building better outcomes for the whole community.”
Meanwhile, Wendy Balmain, North Yorkshire Place Director for the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, hailed the development as “a centre of excellence and a model of best practice for integrated primary care.”
With construction progressing on schedule, the CICC is expected to be wind- and weatherproof by early 2025, allowing internal work to begin.