Moffat Health Centre to close - services to move to Monkton Street

Letter from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust:

I am writing to inform you that some health services currently provided at the Moffat Health Centre, 65 Sancroft Street SE11 5NG will be moving to Lambeth Community Care Centre, Monkton Street SE11 4TX as of Monday 28 April 2014.

We have decided to offer Early Intervention and Prevention Services, Stop Smoking and Foot Health services from the Monkton Street site where consultation rooms are currently under-utilised.  Extra Foot Health services will also continue to be run from Mawbey Brough Health Centre.

By moving services to Monkton Street we will be able to make better use of the facilities and to provide a much better experience for our patients and staff.

Staff currently operating from Monkton Street will not be adversely affected in any way by this decision. Neither will there be any adverse impact on the Amputee Rehabilitation Unit as services will be carried out in the consultation rooms on the ground floor.

If you require any other information please get in touch with Angela Dawe, Operations Director, Community Health Services by telephone on 0207 188 7708 or email: angela.dawe@gstt.nhs.uk.

Kind regards

Angela Dawe
Director of Operations
Community Health Services
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
160 Tooley Street
London SE1 2TZ


Your councillors have asked for details about the future of the Sancroft Street building

Open day this Sunday at Lambeth Community Care Centre

The NHS has renovated the Community Care Centre in Monkton Street and is changing its use from an intermediate care centre to an amputee rehabilitation unit.

• Find out more about its services including acupuncture, physiotherapy and podiatry.
• Take a tour of the centre and the new Amputee Rehabilitation Unit.
• Visit the award winning landscaped garden.
• Find out how you can help the NHS improve services at the centre in the future.

Sunday 9 June, 1pm - 4pm
Lambeth Community Care Centre
Monkton Street, SE11 4TX

Light refreshments will be available.

Temporary Closure of Lambeth Community Care Centre for urgent repair works

As part of the annual planned maintenance programme, work was scheduled to upgrade the water pipes at the Lambeth Community Care Centre (LCCC). However an existing leak in the pipework on the first floor of the LCCC has significantly worsened. Due to the size of the leak and the location of the pipes embedded in the concrete flooring, it is impossible to do a temporary repair and therefore necessary to urgently bring forward the repair work. Until the extensive repairs are completed, which includes excavating the concrete floors to replace all the water pipes, the building is vulnerable to sudden loss of heating and water supply. The scale of the works now requires the building to be temporarily closed for six weeks due to the amount of noise, debris and disruption the work will cause. The closure date for the building is 7 December with work commencing on 10 December.

During this time, all intermediate care inpatient admissions will be at The Pulross Centre, Brixton. The unit will operate at its full 20 bed capacity with the additional medical, nursing and therapy this level of activity requires.

Ground floor community outpatient services are being temporarily relocated during this time to other health centres nearby. These changes are being communicated directly to patients who have booked appointments during this period. The services affected are:
• Gateway Acupuncture Clinic
• Physiotherapy
• Foot Health
• Heart Failure Clinic


The temporary closure comes at a crucial time for the future of the Centre. The local NHS plan to close the intermediate care inpatient beds on the first floor and convert the Centre into a specialist centre for people recovering from amputations. At a meeting of the Friends of the LCCC last Wednesday opinion was divided as to whether the Friends should support the plans. The Committee recommended support for the plans, but the majority of members at the meeting wanted intermediate care for local people to continue.

Photo: Edward Cullinan Architects

Big changes proposed for Lambeth Community Care Centre on Monkton Street

The Lambeth Community Care Centre has been providing intermediate care for people recovering from operations since the 1980s. It's a peaceful, comfortable and attractive facility; with a large and stunningly beautiful garden and a loyal Friends' group.

The local NHS is now proposing changing the Centre into a specialist facility for people recovering from amputations. This a major change and the Friends are concerned that everybody with an interest in the centre is made aware. They are holding a special meeting at the centre on 2 October - please contact us for more details of how to attend and how to join the Friends.

The NHS Consultation document about the proposed changes is here.

Photo: Edward Cullinan Architects