The Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse, has officially opened a new medical dispensing centre and clinic in the city.
Family-owned Salts Healthcare has opened its 20th UK Salts Medilink Centre in Sidwell Street, replacing the Lyndsey and Son shop which has moved to Pinhoe Road.
The mayor and mayoress were also shown around the centre and saw the company's investment in offices, patient consultation rooms and extensive storage facilities. Salts Healthcare also showed off their investment in technology.
The new centre will, like all other Medilink offices offer the new 'Electronic Prescription Service' or EPS for those whose GPs can provide this service which will help patients and practitioners save time, effort and money when ordering repeat prescriptions. Salts Medilink has taken over the dispensing appliance license from Lyndsey and Son and will operate this from the Sidwell Road site.
Salts Healthcare began in 1701 and manufactures orthotic devices and stoma care products for distribution across the globe. Currently run by three tenth-generation brothers, with its headquarters in Birmingham, it is the UK's oldest healthcare business.
Managing director Peter Salt said: "I'm delighted to have a Salts Medilink Centre in Exeter and I'm very proud and honoured that the Lord Mayor and Mayoress of Exeter officially opened our 20th site and I'd like to thank them both for their time. The sun shone, everybody had a great time and my team and I look forward to serving the people of Devon for many years to come."
