Health

A leading local GP has slammed a much-heralded 'super surgery' in Hounslow as 'inherently unfair' to GPs and patients.

Last week, London's NHS chiefs announced the Heart of Hounslow health centre, in Bath Road, is to be transformed into one of the capital's first five 'polyclinics' as early as April.

But Cranford doctor Alick Munro (pictured), chair of the Hounslow Local Medical Committee, told the Chronicle: "What we're concerned about is patients living in the periphery having to go a very long way to obtain services that are already available locally to them. We're also concerned about continuity of care."

Cranford residents are being urged to look out for the symptoms of a heart attack as part of a campaign launched recently.

The area is among the top 13 'at risk' London boroughs for the killer disease according to the British Heart Foundation, but many residents have no idea about the warning signs.