Centre practice manager Belinda Watkins said the two-bed clinic upstairs in Oamaru House, near the centre's main clinic, would have a doctor and a fracture technician on duty at all times the centre was open.
Patients would still undergo X-rays in the main clinic and would move to the fracture clinic for further treatment.
The centre has had a fracture clinic for patients with minor fractures for about two and a-half years and Mrs Watkins said the use of it had been steadily growing.
About 350 patients used the service each month and it was estimated this could rise to about 540 a month, or about 6500 a year, she said.
Apart from a partially subsidised fee for the first consultation, the rest of the treatment, including follow-ups, was free to the patient as it was covered by ACC.
Doctors working in the clinic were not orthopaedic surgeons, but general practitioners who had become more specialised in dealing with fractures because of their work at the centre.
More serious cases would be referred to orthopaedic surgeons.
Early this year, the centre announced it had put off redeveloping its ground-floor clinic, which would have included a revamped reception area and a new resuscitation room for acute patients needing to travel by ambulance to Dunedin Hospital.
Mrs Watkins said those plans were still on hold, but it had been decided to proceed with upgrading the fracture clinic because the existing one had been such a success.
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