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Ambulance Service
The Borough is included in the area of the Greater
London Council Ambulance Service. Provision is
made for the conveyance of sick, accident and
emergency cases. Tel: DRYden0251.
Health Centres and Clinics
New Clinics—shared accommodation with family
doctors
Heston Clinic Vicarage Farm Road
The new Heston Clinic to replace facilities provided
at the adapted war-time nursery at New Heston Road
is in the course of erection and should be completed
by July 1966. The premises have been so designed that
two surgeries, two examination rooms and waiting
space can be made available to general medical practitioners
on a shared accommodation basis. Land is
available for the extension of the premises and for
the provision of additional general practitioner
accommodation at a later date.
Two medical practitioners having surgeries in the
area and who are in partnership have expressed their
interest in working from the clinic.
The Health Committee has approved in principle
the use by two general medical practitioners of the
accommodation which will be available and the Clerk
of the Local Executive Council was asked to convey
to the general practitioners practising in the Heston
area a general outline of the proposal and to ask them
for their views and observations.
Negotiations with the two practitioners who wish
to work from the clinic are proceeding and the
question of rental and terms of letting for the
accommodation are under consideration.
It is proposed to seek the Minister of Health's
approval to designate this new clinic as a health centre
under section 21 of the National Health Service Act
1946.
Spring Road Clinic Feltham
The new Spring Road Clinic to replace facilities
provided by a mobile clinic is under construction and
should be completed in the latter part of 1966. In
order to meet future needs the premises were designed
so that three surgeries, three examination rooms and
waiting space could be made available to general
medical practitioners on a shared accommodation
basis.
The Health Committee has approved in principle
the use of the clinic by three general medical practitioners
and the Clerk of the Local Executive Council
has conveyed to the general practitioners practising in
this area of Feltham a general outline of the proposal
and asked them for their views and observations.
It is proposed to seek the Minister of Health's
approval to designate this new clinic as a health centre
under section 21 of the National Health Service Act
1946.
Hounslow Health Centre 92 Bath Road
This project has been dealt with in detail in my
introduction to the report.
Brentford Health Centre
The Brentford Clinic was purpose built in the late
1930's and consists of a large waiting hall and seven
clinic rooms.
In May 1965, six general medical practitioners
practising in Brentford and providing a service for
approximately 20,000 patients applied for the use of
Brentford Clinic premises for surgery accommodation.
Their existing surgeries were said to be either
affected by proposals for redevelopment or were
inadequate and they had been unable to find a suitable
site in a central position for surgery purposes.
It was considered that the clinic could be adapted
by internal alterations to meet the needs of the general
practitioners leaving adequate accommodation for all
the local health authority services. Several informal
discussions were held with the general practitioners in
the Spring of 1965.
In luly 1965 the Health Committee and the
Borough Council gave approval in principle to the use
of the clinic by six general medical practitioners. The
Borough Architect was requested to submit plans for
the adaptation of the clinic for this purpose and the
Clerk of the Local Executive Council was asked to
communicate to general medical practitioners practising
in the Brentford area a general outline of the
proposal and asking for their views and observations.
On the 2nd December 1965 the Clerk of the
Executive Council convened a meeting of all interested
parties, there was a general discussion on the
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