Scottish health minister opens dental centre
The Scottish health minister has opened a new state-of-the-art dental clinic in the Borders.
Shona Robison officially opened the facility on Tuesday 23 Februrary 2010 at the site of Hawick Community Hospital.
Part of an impressive £1.8million NHS dental development, The Hawick Dental Centre (HDC) has received top billing and is being tipped as the UK’s top decontamination facility for dental equipment.
The minister said that she was overjoyed to be opening HDC and added that it would increase access to dentistry for local people.
HDC has been treating patients for around a year but was officially opened this week.
It contains six surgeries, has specialist x-ray equipment, and is expected to slash NHS dental waiting lists at Borders General Hospital.
A similar project has also opened in Coldstream as part of the aforementioned development.
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