You may have read on the council website that three new Covid testing centres have been set up in Enfield, one of them at the Lodge Drive car park in Palmers Green. The catch is that to get an appointment you still need to go through the national booking system. And, as Palmers Green resident Steven Rawlinson discovered, it's not always possible to get one.
According to a report in the Enfield Dispatch, Steven then went along to Lodge Drive. When he got there, he found " lots of [private contractor] Serco employees there milling around, but no-one was being tested". A Serco employee told Steven that if he went home and reapplied, putting in a Glasgow postcode, they could test him in PG.
The Dispatch reports that Steven was tested and returned a negative result, so it seems that this absurd workaround actually worked. But the experience prompted him to contact Enfield Southgate MP Bambos Charalambous, who wrote complaining to the health secretary.
