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The Hucknall Sixth Form Centre building on Portland Road(Image: Joseph Raynor\/Nottingham Post)<\/p>\nThe centre would bring services including GPs and pharmacies under one roofThe Hucknall Sixth Form Centre building on Portland Road(Image: Joseph Raynor\/Nottingham Post)<\/p>\n
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has blasted “hot air” over a major NHS<\/a> centre in Hucknall that has still not been delivered four years after it was promised.<\/p>\n The local MP has secured a meeting with Mr Streeting over the issue after it was recently confirmed that a site supposedly subject to “advanced talks” with the NHS had now gone on the market.<\/p>\n The NHS says the proposed site was “financially unviable”<\/a> but Michelle Welsh, the Labour MP for the Sherwood Forest<\/a> constituency covering Hucknall, says people in Hucknall have “waited long enough”.<\/p>\n Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday (October 21), the MP said that “demand for GPs is overwhelming” in Hucknall.<\/p>\n “Promises were made by the previous government but never delivered. Meanwhile, the independents have done nothing but point fingers,” the MP said.<\/p>\n Health Secretary Wes Streeting agreed to meet with Michelle Welsh to investigate the failure to deliver the long-promised project.<\/p>\n Mr Streeting condemned years of Conservative neglect and “hot air from independents who enjoy commentating but never take responsibility for delivery.”<\/p>\n The Ashfield Independents claimed just before local elections they fought in May that the district council they run was in “advanced talks” with the NHS<\/a> about turning the Hucknall Sixth Form Centre on Portland Road into a super health centre.<\/p>\n Ashfield District Council then confirmed after May’s election that it never even had a reply from the NHS to the proposal.<\/p>\n