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New Company To Promote Health Science In Inverness

11th February 2008

A new company has been set up to promote the fast growing Centre for Health Science in Inverness.

The first phase of the centre was officially opened last January and comprises a nurse and midwifery training centre, NHS Education for Scotland (NES), a new library for the Highland health care workforce and facilities for healthcare meetings and conferences. The second phase, due to be completed this summer, will provide a new clinical skills centre, a dental institute, a centre for rural health and a bio-med incubator space. The
third phase, scheduled to open in March 2008, will host a unique diabetes institute with two professors of diabetes leading 50 scientists.

To co-ordinate all the tenants' requirements and to assist them to achieve their bjectives, a small team headed by project director Gillian Galloway, has been appointed. They will be assisted in planning for further developments by a board of directors representing the centre's three founding partners - Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) the UHI
Millennium Institute and the University of Aberdeen.

Company directors include Professor Alasdair Munro (chair), James Fraser, UHI Secretary and deputy principal and Professor Lewis Ritchie, general practice head of department, University of Aberdeen.

Ms Galloway explained: "The Centre for Health Science will be playing an important role in the whole health sector of the Highlands and Islands - in training, in research, innovation, development and in service delivery. Our team will further develop the whole concept of the centre."

While the idea for the £23m centre was initially conceived by HIE, it was developed in collaboration with NHS, University of Stirling, NHS Education for Scotland, the University of Aberdeen and the UHI Millennium Institute and LifeScan.

James Gibbs, area director for HIE Inverness and East Highland said: "I am delighted the centre now has a dynamic team to take it forward. HIE is justly proud of its achievement in setting this project on the road but to fulfil its potential as an international model of excellence, the centre now needs an independent, co-ordinating team to ensure that each partner and tenant is getting maximum benefit from their participation."

The new Centre for Health Science company, can be contacted at www.centreforhealthscience.com, 01463 255000.