I WRITE regarding the proposed move to Brighouse of the Rastrick Health Centre.

The centre is very well run with three very efficient doctors and a very helpful and obliging chemist's shop dealing with around 5,000 patients.

The powers that be, with their supposedly superior knowledge, want to change a system that is operating to a very high standard, leaving many senior citizens with a vast amount of worry.

Some of these seniors are 90, and many over 80. Many of them are registered disabled.The bus service to Brighouse leaves a lot to be desired. Sometimes buses do not arrive.

Somewhere some well-educated persons want to change an excellent health service. But a growing number of Rastrick residents are seeing the great disadvantages to such a costly move.

If they have money to spend on a new centre why not find more and increase the funding to the Rastrick Health Centre?

I have been led to believe that the population figures for Rastrick are greater than Brighouse. So can the primary care trust give me a sensible answer to the question: Why consider moving an excellent medical facility from Rastrick?

Harry Broadbent

• Since Mr Broadbent wrote, the doctors at Rastrick Health Centre have withdrawn their request to move to a new surgery in Brighouse and Calder-dale Primary Trust has promised to listen to patients' views. – Editor.