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PART 5
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
These services are provided by the Council, in its capacity as
local health authority, under those sections of the National Health
Service Acts and the Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968,
which are designed to safeguard the health of the individual and
to provide care and attention should ill-health occur.
Comprehensive health centres
In May 1967, the Health Committee considered a report on the
premises then in use for the provision of Local Health Authority
Services and approved a provisional programme for the replacement
of existing sub-standard or unsuitable premises. It was also
agreed that where new clinic premises were to be constructed these
should, as far as possible, be planned as comprehensive health
centres and the Medical Officer of Health was authorised to enter
into discussions with the Inner London Executive Council on the
provision of Executive Council facilities at these centres, as and
when the planning of new centres took place. When suitable sites
have become available, therefore, discussions have ensued with
the Executive Council and with any interested general practitioners,
as a result of which, at the end of 1971, three health centres were
in an advanced stage of planning and the initial preparatory meetings
had taken place in respect of a fourth. Details of these
centres are as follows:—
1. Bridge Lane Health Centre.
This will be in the Home Road (No. 2) Development Area and
will be located at the junction of Banbury Road. Battersea
Bridge Road and Bridge Lane, S.W.11. Accommodation will
be provided for four general practitioners and for a full range
of local health authority services. In addition facilities will be
provided for a Mobile X-ray Unit to operate at the site as and
when necessary. It is hoped that the centre will be operational
in the early part of 1974.
2. Brocklebank Health Centre.
This centre will be part of the Brocklebank redevelopment project
and will be located on the Garratt Lane frontage adjacent
to the junction with Swaffield Road, S.W.18. Accommodation
will be provided for five general practitioners; for a full range