7th August 2023

Significant extension and refurbishment works have been carried out at Stewartstown Health Centre in Tyrone, following a £250k investment from the Department of Health’s (DoH) Primary Care Infrastructure Development Programme (PCID).
The investment means the practice now has additional capacity and new rooms for medical services, including GP training. It will also be able to facilitate the roll-out of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) model to include physiotherapists, social workers and mental health workers.
Martin Hayes, Programme Director, PCID at the Department of Health said, “Supporting investment in GP practices is a key priority for DoH. More than £5.1 million of funding has been provided across the Northern Health and Social Care Trust area in the last five years, to increase capacity within primary care premises. I am delighted about the significant benefits of the investment.”
One of the new consulting rooms at Stewartstown Health Centre
Dr Orla Fitzsimons, GP practice partner said, “We are so delighted that our team are now working in a beautiful space. Because of the extra room, we can become a training practice and we are able to accommodate more medical students. It makes the practice a nice place to work and will hopefully attract new staff and enable us to continue to provide good healthcare to the population of Stewartstown and beyond.”