A new GP unit has been opened in Perth and Kinross.

The £2.6 million unit was opened at Blairgowrie Community Hospital on 11 May by Deputy First Minister John Swinney and NHS Tayside Chairman Sandy Watson.

The GP facility provides a modern environment for patient care, incorporating a purpose-built minor injury and illness unit, a day case area and a new rehabilitation facility.

Mr Swinney said: "This £2.6 million project has transformed healthcare facilities in the local area and the new GP unit is a facility that the local community can rightly be proud of. The new GP ward offers the flexibility to care for individual patients, including those requiring palliative care, in the single and twin rooms.

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"These are state-of-the-art facilities, at the forefront of the latest advances in healthcare, and will transform the care patients receive from their NHS."

Mr Watson said the facility provides great benefits to people in the Strathmore area.

He added: "We gave a commitment to providing this new unit three years ago and I am absolutely delighted that the public have contributed to the thinking and planning about what is now available to the people of Strathmore."

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