Naming of new health centre

[nxjen]

Residents within the catchment area for the new health centre in Dulwich are being invited to send in their suggestions for naming the new health facility.

https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/your-chance-to-name-new-health-centre-in-dulwich/?fbclid=IwAR2cvn6ex0K2juzr0nOKE7Jl9lIjS3YD4o17ktSvo3x2kRjQqn_hAj1Ay9Y

'Please be as creative as you like, but do bear in mind that the final name needs to be suitable for an NHS community health centre'

[Penguin68]

I suppose Healthy McHealth Face is off the agenda?

[Rosetta]

Does anyone know what is going to happen to the original building?

Melbourne Grove/Concordia, who won the bid for this, currently has problems recruiting and retaining GPs for their existing surgery, so how are they going to recruit for this place?

[TheArtfulDogger]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> I suppose Healthy McHealth Face is off the agenda?

You're off your face with that suggestion my friend

How about something catchy like "health centre"? Said what it does

Or "Sick people building" 🤔

[Sue]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> I suppose Healthy McHealth Face is off the agenda?

:)) :)) :))

[ed_pete]

Rosetta Wrote:

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> Does anyone know what is going to happen to the

> original building?

>

> Melbourne Grove/Concordia, who won the bid for

> this, currently has problems recruiting and

> retaining GPs for their existing surgery, so how

> are they going to recruit for this place?

Once the new health centre building is complete and commissioned and the services that are currently run from the hospital building transferred, the central "chateaux" is being retained as part of the Charter School (God knows why but that's my opinion) and the remainder will be bulldozed to make way for additional school buildings / open space.

I seem to vaguely remember that it could take until 2021 for the existing building to be decommissioned.

[ed_pete]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Residents within the catchment area for the new

> health centre in Dulwich are being invited to send

> in their suggestions for naming the new health

> facility.

>

> https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/your-chance-t

> o-name-new-health-centre-in-dulwich/?fbclid=IwAR2c

> vn6ex0K2juzr0nOKE7Jl9lIjS3YD4o17ktSvo3x2kRjQqn_hAj

> 1Ay9Y

>

> 'Please be as creative as you like, but do bear in

> mind that the final name needs to be suitable for

> an NHS community health centre'

How about the "Can-I-have-some-of-the-?350-million-a-week-please-Boris Health Centre"

[Sue]

Crying emoji :(

[James Barber]

Obvious would be "East Dulwich Health Centre" but as they've decided to limit the number of letters and spaces to 25 this won't be allowed. Dulwich Health Centre would be too similar to Dulwich Medical Centre and cause confusion.

[singalto]

The catchment area appears to be huge!

[kristymac1]

I find this sort of activity a real waste of time and money - presumably it requires employees to administer this when nhs resources are already stretched beyond limits.

Call me miserable, but i'd rather the nhs spent its limited funds on more important stuff.

[nxjen]

?East Dulwich Medical Centre? is not only obvious but very dull! The linked article states they are looking for a name that demonstrates a connection to Southwark?s community and history. I just hope it doesn?t become the Alleyn Medical Centre.

[Penguin68]

The Mary Seacole Centre - it is on the site of the old Dulwich Maternity Hospital and Mary Seacole is credited with good quality maternity medical care.

In Jamaica in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, neonatal deaths were more than a quarter of total births, at a time when British-Jamaican planter Thomas Thistlewood wrote about European doctors employing questionable practices such as mercury pills and the bleeding of the patient. However, Seacole, using traditional West African herbal remedies and hygienic practices, boasted that she never lost a mother or her child.

Her links to Southwark, it has to be said, are tenuous, but not to London itself and there is a statue to her outside St Thomas'.

[Earl Aelfheah]

How about "Dr Billious' Emporium for the Maladious Multiudes off Melbourne Grove"?

The name could be displayed off centre, on a sign painted gentrification grey and printed in Helvetica. Would be very 'on brand' for ED.

[Gloves]

Purveyor of health

Using perveyor like Saucy and the new sweet shop.............

[fishbiscuits]

How about "The Doctors".

[mikeb]

Saviour Health Centre - a nod to the history of the original hospital but without the explicit link to Christianity

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/StSaviour/

[dbboy]

The James Barber Health Centre in recognition of all the work James has done for the community.

[Nigello]

NHSE22 with some kind of smaller superimposed S on the S of SE22

[Captain Marvel]

So the remaining wing of the hospital is to be bulldozed?

W***ers

*** = ank

[sweetgirl]

"East Dulwich health hub"

[Humdinger]

"NoMorePizzeriasPlease"

[TheCat]

Sicky, Mcsick....oooh I've already pooed

[TheArtfulDogger]

How about

The centre for no appointments

Just like most Drs these days 😳

[bonnierach]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> I suppose Healthy McHealth Face is off the agenda?

Awww. I came here to write this 😂