Centre tests NHS vision

THE NHS must not be allowed to get away with it. Finsbury Health Centre is iconic, and the NHS will never be allowed to demolish a Grade I-listed building.

Today, it is quite capable of building anew in keeping with the times. Have a look at Guy Greenfield’s delightful new surgery in Hammersmith.

Faced with a little bit of ‘rundownness’, the NHS should simply swallow, approach English Heritage for a little funding and refurbish, not to 1930s standards, but those appropriate to today.  

Two generations or a lifetime of patients have found cure and relief within the health centre’s revolutionary frame, and to suggest it is time-expired or too expensive to do something about is quite ludicrous.  

How about a Lottery bid? Better than Domes or other government- imposed rubbish.

All we need now, as in Islington of the 1930s, is a bit of vision.

CHARLES NORRIE
Canonbury Grove
N1