Health centre, Oxhey Drive

Then

In the early years the estate's doctors and baby clinic worked from the old Oxhey Place mansion. One account says the doctors began in a stable-like building beside Oxhey Place, moved to a house in Prestwick Road and then settled in a permanent surgery in Oxhey Drive, just past the police station that opened in January 1953. A new health centre on Oxhey Drive was finished late in 1957, and a resident remembers one of the first GPs working there. Another resident remembers a club for new mothers at the clinic in 1958 and 1959, but does not say which building the clinic was in. A local listing says the old mansion stayed the medical centre until the fire of 1960, but Poor But Proud says the house had been boarded up for about a year by then. In March 1999 the surgery in Hallowes Crescent, threatened with closure two years before, was revived, with a doctor from the Oxhey Drive health centre working there two days a week. Poor But Proud calls this good news for many residents, especially older ones, who had needed two buses and a long walk to reach the Oxhey Drive surgery. In 2013 a contributor to Our Oxhey wrote that the surgery past the police station was still there.^{5,108,118,119,126,140,146,153,176,281,486,596,597,598}

Now

GP practices now work from South West Herts Health Centre and The Consulting Rooms, both on Oxhey Drive. Manor View Practice, which also has surgeries in Borehamwood, Bushey and Watford, runs a surgery at South West Herts Health Centre. Wikipedia names The Consulting Rooms as the largest of the Oxhey Drive surgeries.

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