The centre was the subject of national media coverage

Local health managers are meeting this week to decide whether to close the Sai Medical Centre on Sale Street.

Another option is to expand its services so drug or alcohol addicts can use it as well.

Hundreds of patients were sent to other surgeries to make way for the asylum seekers, but far fewer are being sent to the city.

Secretary of the Derbyshire Local Medical Committee, Dr John Grenville, felt the problems could have been pre-empted if money was made available at an earlier date.

He said: "I think it was absolutely essential that we thought about how we were going to deal with a whole new group of patients with a whole new group of problems.