SIR – Much as I appreciate Councillor Richard Udall’s failed efforts to persuade First to extend the 30 bus route the short distance to the new surgery (Worcester News, August 21), I feel there is a lot more going on here.

First is obviously pressing for further subsidies for a 30 bus service that is the worst service in Worcester.

It is incapable now of running a relatively short circular service between Dines Green and the city which is and always has been a complete shambles, and their excuses for not extending the route a very short distance to the medical centre currently being built on the University Park at Grove Farm are laughable.

As one of the very large proportion of elderly people registered with St John’s House Surgery in Bromyard Road, I have great difficulty getting to the present site now without my own transport.

My husband is now incapable of getting there at all.

Any farther to travel will make it impossible for us and many like us.

I feel it is the responsibility of all concerned to sort this out without further delay and in good time for the opening of the new centre.

Alternatively, of course, St John’s House Surgery’s elderly patients have the option to vote with their feet (or their walking sticks and wheelchairs) and join another local medical centre.

MARINA DUFFELL

Worcester