WORCESTER’S only abortion clinic is being closed and sold off, with the service likely to be moved to the city’s hospital.

The Moor Street clinic, which also provides sexual health and pregnancy care, is due to be sold by the end of 2020.

Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust pledged that services at the centre will be relocated elsewhere before it closes.

Health bosses said the clinic will likely move to Worcestershire Royal Hospital, although some think the site is harder to get to and more intimidating than Moor Street.

Labour city councillor Joy Squires said: “Over the years many generations of Worcester residents will have used the wide range of services provided at Moor Street clinic.

“It is an old and tired building but has the advantage of being very central and easy to get to.

“If all these community based services are relocated to the hospital that makes them more difficult to access.

“Attending a centrally located, city centre clinic is much easier than having to organise transport to the hospital.

“It is also less intimidating than attending hospital.”

A spokesman for the trust acknowledged the benefits of the clinic’s central location but also pointed out the problems with the current building, including its age.

The spokesman added: “We have no plans to stop providing any of the services currently based at Moor Street clinic.

“However the environment at Moor Street isn’t ideal and as part of our long term estate strategy we have been exploring options to vacate the building and move its services to more suitable accommodation.

“This would include Aconbury North, which is on the main Worcestershire Royal Hospital site, and potentially other suitable accommodation in the Worcester area.

“Moor Street won’t close until all its services have been successfully relocated so the impact on patients will be minimised.”

The spokesman added that the current three-storey clinic, which dates back to the 1960s, is not accessible for wheelchair users and therefore breaches the Disability Discrimination Act.

The trust estimates that 10 homes could be built on the site, which it plans to sell in 2020.

It raised £400,000 from the sale of Shrubbery Avenue Rehab Hostel, in Worcester, which has been turned into housing.