A new private health centre is opening in Scunthorpe.
InspireHealth will be based out of 74 Oswald Road and is set to open its doors to its first patients on Monday, January 27. Its founders said they hoped its presence would help reduce waiting times in the area.
A launch event was held last weekend, with Scunthorpe MP Sir Nic Dakin and North Lincolnshire Council leader Cllr Rob Waltham attending. InspireHealth will initially offer 13 different health specialist areas.
“The presence of all of you here today is a testament to the significance of what we’re going to launch,” said Dr Maqbool Rana Ahmad, who described it as “a proud moment”.
He and three other GPs from Kirton-in-Lindsey and Scotter practice are behind the new health centre – Dr Satpal Singh Shekhawat, Dr Tahira Cheema, and Dr Saima Magrabi. The new Scunthorpe health facility will initially be based in the ground floor only, with facilities including five state-of-the-art consultant rooms.
Structural works have already been completed upstairs, which would add in future another five such rooms also. Dr Ahmad said the launch event “marked not just the opening of healthcare facilities, but also the beginning of a new chapter in our community’s journey towards better health and wellbeing”.
Scunthorpe MP Sir Nic Dakin cuts the cake at Inspire Health’s launch. Also in the picture are Cllr Rob Waltham, Dr Maqbool Rana Ahmad, Dr Satpal Singh Shekhawat, Dr Tahira Cheema, and Dr Saima Magrabi.
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“Our vision and passion is very simple but profound and powerful,” he said, stating it will provide high class, professional and personal healthcare facilities, closer to Scunthorpe people’s home, and regardless of their budget. It is working with St Hugh’s Hospital in Grimsby so patients will be able to receive complete care, including operations if medically required, under one service.
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The medical areas InspireHealth will cover include:
- Ears, nose and throat (ENT)
- Gastroenterology
- Cardiology
- Pain management
- Women’s health and menopause
- Orthopaedics
- Rheumatology
- Physiotherapy
- Weight management
- Aesthetic medicine
Attendees to the launch event were given a presentation by Dr Shekhawat on how the new private health centre will work. He said the practice’s values were kindness, compassion and patient-centred care. It was focused on affordable private healthcare, with prompt access for patients, being open seven days a week, and supporting the local NHS health system.
Patients will be able to either book direct with InspireHealth, through a website and by phone, or for secondary care specialists, may be referred to it by their GP. This is based under the NHS’s right to choose system, where a GP may refer to private healthcare, if asked to by the patient.
One of the consultant rooms at new private health centre in Oswald Road, Scunthorpe
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“It would help them with the waiting lists,” Dr Shekhawat suggested in his presentation of the health centre’s orthopaedics coverage. He stated waiting lists for orthopaedics in Scunthorpe area were currently over 12 months, compared to four to six weeks in Grimsby.
Speaking to Scunthorpe Live, he indicated InspireHealth is to employ over 30 people, including 17 consultants and seven GPs. Its website is due to launch shortly, and its intended private membership plan for patients varies between £30-£50 a month, dependent on the level of appointments a patient seeks.
The building InspireHealth has transformed was vacant after its last use as offices in 2023. Before that, it was the council’s youth offending service’s building until March 2020.
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