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‘Bun fight’ at health centre sell-off meeting
THE first meeting of a special advisory group set up to decide the fate of the Finsbury Health Centre descended into a “bun fight” after its chairman refused to discuss any alternatives to closure.
Islington Council chief executive John Foster told the meeting yesterday (Thursday) that the Primary Care Trust was under no obligation to rethink its plans to abandon the iconic Grade I-listed building. Health Secretary Alan Johnson recently wrote to the PCT ordering them into “a reappraisal of the options”.
But the PCT believes that only relates to who it could sell the building to.
Councillor Martin Klute, who is chairman of the council’s health and wellbeing committee, said: “It was an extraordinary meeting – it ended in a bit of a bun fight, I’m sad to say.”
The PCT’s decision to close the centre earlier this year was hijacked by councillors on the wellbeing committee in March. They referred the decision to the Secretary of State’s Independent Regulatory Panel, which ordered the PCT to rethink its plans. Campaigners, councillors and unelected PCT board members will meet again at the Town Hall in September. |
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