£1.3m is set to be invested into the Whitehouse Health Centre to help provide specialist healthcare services for local people.
The investment is set to save local people in need of vital facilities a two-hour round trip three times a week for help.
Whitehouse Health Centre formally opened in 2020 to serve the Western Expansion Area of Milton Keynes with MK Council investing £9.5m to build it in a joint funding arrangement with the NHS.
MK Council is now set to sign 15-year lease agreements with both Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) and Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MKUH), enabling them to take up the empty first and second floors at the centre.
Kitted with the latest facilities to provide specialist endoscopy and renal services, the services will be delivered by MKUH and OUH respectively.
Patients in Milton Keynes in need of renal specialists at OUH currently may have to make a two-hour round trip three times a week to Churchill Hospital in Oxford or Stoke Mandeville in Aylesbury.
MK Council is also set to provide £1.3m of up front funding to complete the initial fit out of one of the empty floors for the renal services delivered by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This money will be repaid over a longer period by OUH as part of an enhanced rent agreement.
Cllr Rob Middleton, Cabinet Member for Resources at MK Council said: “We’re delighted to have reached an agreement to bring specialist healthcare services to patients in Milton Keynes. It’s not right that local people should have to face major disruption to access the healthcare that they need.
"Our new Whitehouse Medical Centre has already established itself as a vital facility and we’re pleased to be taking the services it can offer another leap forward. We’re grateful to our healthcare partners for working with us to make this happen.”
Following the agreement, work to fit out the two vacant floors at Whitehouse could start as early as January.
The first patients could make use of the new facilities during the spring and summer of 2022.
