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To: Dr Neville Purssell Chair of Central London CCG
Keep Lanark Road Walk-In Clinic Open
Reverse the decision to close the Lanark Road Third Floor Walk-In Centre at Lanark Road, London W9 1NZ.
Why is this important?
The Walk-In Clinic at The Third Floor Medical Centre at Lanark Road, London W9 1NZ is, and has been providing an excellent service to a large number of people in Maida Vale, West London.
In the two years it has been running, thousands of patients have been treated, (up to 100 each week). Closing this clinic would therefore impact negatively on patients. Local GP practices in Maida Vale are already badly overstretched and waiting times for an appointment are often measured in weeks.
I am writing to ask you to drop your plans to close the Lanark Road Third Floor Walk-in Centre. This view is shared by hundreds of local residents, from 19 to 93 years of age. I implore you to listen to them. Alternative Walk In Clinics can be two bus journeys away, so are inaccessible for many patients. This centre is easy to reach for patients, who may otherwise find it necessary to visit the A&E Department at St Mary’s Hospital. As well as being required to wait a number of hours, they would be using overstretched emergency services, (and therefore more expensive to manage).
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to drop these damaging plans, for the sake of patients as well as local NHS service provision.
