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"Independent minded."

Quentin Letts, Daily Mail, December 2004

MP Tells Health Chiefs: Get Moving on Colne Health Centre

Friday, 25 September 2009 15:32

A new state-of-the-art Health Centre in Colne should be a top priority for the NHS in East Lancashire and a decision to press ahead with the project should be taken within the next three months.  That was the blunt message delivered by Pendle MP, Gordon Prentice, to local health chiefs when he met them earlier today at the Trust’s Regent Street offices in Nelson.  The meeting with Steve Spoerry, the Chief Executive of the primary care trust – now rebadged as NHS East Lancashire, and Vice Chair, David Joyce, ranged over a number of current issues including how best to give patients a voice in the NHS.  Speaking after the meeting, the MP said: “I do not want to see the Colne Health Centre become a long term aspiration. People want it now.”  “Endless talking by Pendle Council and consultations about consultations about where the new Health Centre should be located clearly delayed things – so much so that other NHS building projects elsewhere in East Lancashire which were behind us in the queue have now overtaken us.”  “This is unacceptable.”  “I want a firm decision by the turn of the year to press ahead with the new Health Centre that Colne so badly needs.”  Ends