I AM a registered disabled person and a frequent caller at both the Court Road Surgery and the Victoria Road Health Centre and I would like to say how nice it would be if the Court Road Surgery, in particular, could be removed to a more convenient site.

The present facilities present great difficulties to the disabled; one is able to park on the small forecourt, (although this is not an easy manoeuvre) but walking to the surgery door is difficult because of the uneven slope.

Inside the facilities are very crowded and some of the doctors' consulting rooms and the nurse's room are up a long and steep staircase. The doctors and staff are very helpful, and are prepared to come downstairs if needed, but obviously this is disruptive to the work of the practice and something of a makeshift.

The practice has obviously outgrown the premises, which seem to me unlikely to meet the provisions of the Disability Discrimi-nation Act, which come into force on January 1, 2004.

The same could probably be said of the Health Centre. Most of the patients, I am told, arrive by car, and so the parking situation, bad everywhere in Malvern but particularly so in Barnards Green, becomes more important than proximity to the patients' homes.

I myself have had five different addresses since I first registered with the Court Road surgery (it was in College Road then) and I am sure people in general move house more frequently than they change their doctor.

As to being in the centre of the town, where exactly is that?

Malvern is a collection of villages, straggling along the Hills, and now spreading into the plain. There are several centres, and new development has to be on the periphery. Townsend Way is probably the only feasible site.

So can we please have a nice new, legal, single storey, medical centre, on a flat site with lots of parking for disabled and able-bodied alike.

George Rich, Lower Howsell Road, Malvern Link.