IT was reported recently that the entire list of patients at a GP's clinic in Derby, some 2,000, have been told that they will have to find themselves a new doctor to make way for 800 asylum seekers.

Blackburn, at present has 700 'official' asylum seekers, but no-one seems to know how many more there are in privately-rented accommodation. So how many residents of Blackburn may soon be instructed to try and find themselves a new doctor?

Heaven knows what the effect will have on the NHS dental services. Just try and find a dentist for treatment under the NHS and, as anyone who has tried will know, it's nigh on impossible.

The person who started this snowball rolling in the late 1990's is Jack Straw MP, when Home Secretary and devised the 'dispersal system.'

Maybe they will start using the old folks' homes as hotels, for the next wave of asylum seekers after the county council has closed them at the behest of the government.

Mind you, anyone with a driving school will be eagerly awaiting for the thousands of pounds which will be doled out for driving lessons for them -- the asylum seekers, not the displaced old folk.

HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Woodside Road, Accrington.