THE chances of a new type of health centre coming to Ulverston have gone after it was announced that the town was deemed unsuitable.
Cumbria Primary Care Trust were looking at the town as a possible venue for a Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Support Services (CATS) centre, a government initiative to tackle waiting times and offer specialist treatments.
But Peter Clarke, Interim Public Engagement and Partnership Lead of Cumbria PCT, told councillors on Monday that the town "was not an appropriate location."
He added that a private company, Netcare, would be given a contract to specialise in rheumotology and orthopaedics, to operate a CATS centre at Furness General Hospital in Barrow.
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