Yeadon's new health centre will be opened by MP Paul Truswell on Friday.

The £6.9m Community Health Centre on South View Road, replaces the old Yeadon Health Centre, which was described as "outdated, cramped and unsuitable".

The new health centre was completed in October 2007. It is home to the GP practice, Dr Marshall and partners, and it contains a number of other services including podiatry, speech and language therapy, musculoskeletal (physiotherapy) services and community nursing services.

The Leeds Primary Care Trust says the new centre, with all the services under one roof, will ensure that patients can be cared for in a modern environment close to their own homes.

Mr Truswell, pictured, who will be welcomed to the building by the PCT chairman Martin Drury and the PCT chief executive Christine Outram, said "It is great to see a community facility that I and many other people have worked hard for finally coming to fruition.

I am especially delighted to have been asked to open it in the presence of those who have helped to make it a reality."

The centre is one of several buildings which have been opened across the city as part of the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme, a public and private partnership between Leeds, LIFT, Leeds PCT and Leeds City Council.