So, the NHS is 60. Happy Birthday. More like Unhappy Birthday. In such a time of turmoil over future NHS plans, it does seem a bit daft to be celebrating 60 ‘great’ years of our public health service.

Lord Darzi’s polyclinic proposal was also unveiled last week amid the celebrations. It seems that the thinking behind this timing was to commemorate 60 years of healthcare with a new wonderful vision for the next 60. It is such a shame that these controversial plans for the NHS overshadowed all the good work of the underpaid staff.

Haringey residents celebrated with another round of protests and increased anger at this new healthcare model.

I am still divided on whether polyclinics or super-health centres - or whatever they choose to be named this week - would actually work. On paper they sound incredibly visionary, forward-thinking and, dare I say it, pie-in-the-sky.

If you take a look at our services now, despite having come a long way in 60 years, they are far from perfect. We read - and write about - bad health stories every day. Each survey of the NHS reveals long waiting lists, botched operations or a lack of competency.

However these black holes in the service are conveniently plastered over and swept under the carpet with Darzi’s vision of the NHS in ten or 20 years time. It sounds more like a bedtime fairytale at best.

For Haringey at the moment the future of NHS services is unclear and this is what is causing the mad panic among protesters.

In order to quell the rumours surrounding the “closure” of GP surgeries, I was invited to attend a press briefing organised by Haringey Primary Care Trust to learn more about the proposals for neighbourhood health centres.

The media is being accused of scaremongering and misleading residents about polyclinic plans, by publicising the fact that doctors’ practices could close.

The reality, we have been told again and again, and once more at the briefing, is that surgeries would simply move to a different location. To me - and many members of the public I have spoken to - the difference between closing and moving is just a question of semantics. And it is definitely not simple.

For patients, their local doctor could no longer be so local. They may still be able to see their family GP but only if they are willing to travel further to access that care. It may be that a lot of people are willing to do this, but there are lot of people who won't, and more importantly, can't.

We’re told people won’t mind the travel to get better services. Not wishing to burst Mr Darzi’s fairytale bubble, but placing services under one roof does not instantly make them better. It does not solve the small details of waiting lists, botched operations or management incompetency.

The idea of super health centres is not a bad one in essence. However the PCT is living a pipedream if it thinks it can peddle this idea of swift, efficient service with easy access, without going into the nitty gritty. There should not even be talk of moving GP practices into one central "hub" without weighing up the pros and cons, based on actual evidence and intricate detail.

But what I think residents need to realise is that there are no finite details. We are missing the nitty gritty because it doesn’t exist yet.

The PCT is pioneering Mr Darzi’s bedtime fairytale with a beginning and an end; however it is missing a middle - the detail for the story to make sense. And 60 years down the line, it is just this detail which is getting the NHS into trouble.

The PCT now needs to write a few more pages of this story if we are to take it seriously and imagine this happy ending we are promised. Until I read the finished version I won’t be holding my breath.