A CLINIC providing specialist foot care at Salisbury District Hospital is likely to move to Andover.

It would mean that scores of people, many of them elderly or disabled, would have to make a 40-mile round trip from Salisbury for essential treatment.

Many who use the service do not own cars so would have to rely on buses or trains for even the briefest appointment with consultant podiatric surgeon Lyndon Jones.

Mr Jones has already written to patients to say the clinic has moved but South Wiltshire Primary Care Trust has pledged to try and keep the service in Salisbury.

Mr Jones is based in Andover and, although he runs his Salisbury clinic on Mondays, the service has been co-ordinated by the Mid-Hampshire Primary Care Trust for the past two years.

In a letter to patients, he said that moving the clinic to Andover would help him to provide a better service.

But John Nicholas, chief executive of the South Wiltshire Primary Care Trust, said they would still be doing everything they could to keep the clinic in Salisbury.