A new NHS healthcare centre is to open in south Birmingham in a former retail store.
The South Birmingham Community Diagnostic Centre will open this summer in a former Halfords store in Maypole.
The centre is a partnership between NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and InHealth, a specialist provider of diagnostic services.
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The new health centre will offer a wide variety of diagnostic tests in one place, including MRI, CT and ultrasound scans, X-rays and other health screening services.
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It will give patients access to diagnostic tests closer to home, reducing the need for hospital visits and providing quicker delivery of care.
It will be one of three such centres in Birmingham and Solihull, with others in Washwood Heath and Chelmsley Wood.
The deal was brokered by Birmingham-based property agency Real Estate Investors.
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Director Ian Clark said: "We are delighted to have finalised this property rental to provide a space for such an important initiative.
"This will bring a vital new community diagnostic centre to Maypole that will directly benefit the health and wellbeing of the local community."
The 4,542 sq ft space is the final vacancy REI has let at its property in Alcester Road South.
Developed in 2007, the complex already has a 60-bed hotel and six ground floor shop units, with tenants including Poundstretcher, Ladbrokes and Subway.
Faith Button, chief delivery officer at NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board, said: "This will be a fantastic resource for local people, helping to get the diagnosis and care they need as soon as possible and close to home."