The new £8 million health super-centre in Manningham was officially named yesterday - by a schoolboy.

Westbourne Green Community Health Care Centre was the name chosen for the flagship development by Westbourne Primary School pupil Aleem Akbar in a competition.

The ten-year-old, who lives in Manningham, chose the name to reflect the centre's role in the community.

"I was thinking about green grass and about how important this new health centre is for people in Manningham," he said.

"I was surprised to find I had won the competition. It's amazing to have the centre named after my suggestion."

Westbourne Green is the local name for the area where the centre has been built, at the junction of Oak Lane and Heaton Road in Manningham.

Mark Lyles, locality manager for the Manningham area with Bradford City Teaching PCT, said: "The centre has been five years in the planning so it's great to see it so close to being up and running and having a fantastic new name."

The previously undeveloped site will house an 18-bed community hospital for older people requiring intermediate care after leaving hospital, three GP surgeries, a pharmacy and a range of services provided by GPs with a special interest such as dermatology and neurological care.

It will also offer counselling and mental health services, midwifery, speech and language services, social services, community dentistry, minor surgery, podiatry, physiotherapy, baby clinics, occupational therapy, an education and training facility and rooms for community use.

The hope is that the centre will enable more treatments, previously only carried out in hospitals, to be provided in a primary care setting.

The health centre aims to bring together health and social care services under one roof when it opens its doors on March 6.

The centre, developed by Bradford and Airedale Care Partnerships, is the first phase of the LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) project that will see £50 million invested in new GP surgeries in the district over the next five years.

The Bradford and Airedale NHS LIFT was set up as a limited company with a contract signed between local primary care trusts, the Department of Health and Accent Partnerships.

In addition to the centre in Manningham the first wave of schemes includes new healthcare facilities in Low Moor and Haworth.

Schemes in Barkerend and Undercliffe are also in the pipeline.

A competition to name the centre was run by the Bradford City Teaching Primary Care Trust. Yesterday, competition winner Aleem and other winners were at the centre as VIP guests to see the new sign being put up.

Aleem won £50 in gift vouchers for helping to pick the name.