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Consultation has concluded
Voting is now closed to name Bermondsey and Walworth’s new NHS health centre. The results of the voting will be published soon.
Thank you to everyone who voted.
NHS South East London received suggestions from NHS staff and local people, telling us what they think the health centre should be called. From these suggestions, a shortlist of three names has been drawn up by a judging panel, which included NHS staff, Council staff and patient representatives.
Now we want local people to pick their favourite.
The proposed names are:
George and Innes Health Centre
George Scott Williamson (1884–1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889–1978) opened the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham in 1926. This was known as the Peckham Experiment. An experiment designed to determine whether people as a whole would, given the opportunity, take a vested interest in their own health and fitness and expend effort to maintain it. The experiment took place between 1926 and 1950 before this innovative approach to preventative social medicine closed from a lack of funding.
Harold Moody Health Centre
Dr Harold Moody (1882 – 1947) was a Peckham GP and civil rights campaigner. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Dr Moody studied medicine at King’s College Hospital – finishing top of his class. Refused work because of the colour of his skin, he set up his own GP surgery in King’s Grove in Peckham and founded the League of Coloured Peoples, to campaign for racial equality. He is named on the list of ‘100 Great Black Britons’.
Thurlow Health Centre
Named after the road which the centre will be on. Thurlow Street runs from north to south; from the junction with the vibrant East Street in the north to the northern edge of Burgess Park in the south and has predominantly residential premises along its length. The word Thurlow comes from a family who came to England with the Norman invasion and set up land in Suffolk, now known as the village Thurlow.
Voting is now closed to name Bermondsey and Walworth’s new NHS health centre. The results of the voting will be published soon.
Thank you to everyone who voted.
NHS South East London received suggestions from NHS staff and local people, telling us what they think the health centre should be called. From these suggestions, a shortlist of three names has been drawn up by a judging panel, which included NHS staff, Council staff and patient representatives.
Now we want local people to pick their favourite.
The proposed names are:
George and Innes Health Centre
George Scott Williamson (1884–1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889–1978) opened the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham in 1926. This was known as the Peckham Experiment. An experiment designed to determine whether people as a whole would, given the opportunity, take a vested interest in their own health and fitness and expend effort to maintain it. The experiment took place between 1926 and 1950 before this innovative approach to preventative social medicine closed from a lack of funding.
Harold Moody Health Centre
Dr Harold Moody (1882 – 1947) was a Peckham GP and civil rights campaigner. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Dr Moody studied medicine at King’s College Hospital – finishing top of his class. Refused work because of the colour of his skin, he set up his own GP surgery in King’s Grove in Peckham and founded the League of Coloured Peoples, to campaign for racial equality. He is named on the list of ‘100 Great Black Britons’.
Thurlow Health Centre
Named after the road which the centre will be on. Thurlow Street runs from north to south; from the junction with the vibrant East Street in the north to the northern edge of Burgess Park in the south and has predominantly residential premises along its length. The word Thurlow comes from a family who came to England with the Norman invasion and set up land in Suffolk, now known as the village Thurlow.
