Colne Health Centre a "top priority"

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 before the end of 2009. 
 
This was the message I left with Steve Spoerry, Chief Executive of the local NHS, when I met him recently.
 
I do not want to see the Colne Health Centre become an item on a wish list..
 
People want it now.
 
Endless consultations about where the new Health Centre should be located 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.
 
I am pressing for a firm decision by the turn of the year to press ahead with the new Health Centre that Colne so badly needs.