MaSTLIFTCo, one of the six Primary Plus LIFT Companies, has handed over the flagship Ancoats Health Centre to the Manchester PCT.

The ninth new centre in Greater Manchester, Ancoats is part of the New East Manchester urban regeneration project and represents a £6m investment.

MaST’s new Strategic Partnering Director Clare Postlethwaite said “ … The Ancoats scheme is the largest to reach practical completion for the MaST NHS Partnership to date. The scheme was one of the original schemes envisaged by the partnership and has been achieved by intense joint working between a wide variety of agencies. The facility is key to the regeneration of this area and the provision of redesigned health and social care services and demonstrates the real difference that can be achieved via LIFT developments of this type…”