NHS call on PM to ensure test centres are conveniently located

Concern that centres were too far from both work or home for those working in London

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NHS staff have called on Boris Johnson to ensure that new coronavirus testing centres are located conveniently for health workers and not in out-of-town sites like Ikea car parks.

Drive-in test centres for nurses and doctors were opened this week in converted car parks at the Scandinavian superstore in Wembley in London and Chessington theme park near the M25. But as hundreds queued for the swab tests, concern was raised that they were too far from work or home for tens of thousands working in the capital.