Public squalor, private squalor.

摘要

I arrived at the surgery one day last month, during the .BMA's 'Support Your Surgery' campaign, to find, the door encased by a massive roll-down metal screen. This is supported by a crudely constructed buttress in which neither the brick work nor the mortar matches the existing building. Shoddily built by the old area health authority in the 1970s, our health centre has never had any pretensions to architectural distinction. Now, on the initiative of the primary care trust, our latest landlords, the centre welcomes patients to enter through what looks like the gate of a lock-up garage or a military bunker.