Methven Surgery patients face a 12-mile round trip for medical help unless a proposal to close their practice is avoided
Perth and Kinross councillors have called for urgent meetings with health chiefs to pursue all available avenues to avoid the permanent closure of a Perthshire GP surgery.
He said: "Colleagues, this motion today asks that elected members of all political parties - and of none - collectively agree to unite to urge Tayside NHS Board Primary Care Services and Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership to pursue all possible avenues and work with PKC to avert the need for the Methven branch surgery of the Perth Glover Street Victoria Practice to be permanently closed, and to try to avoid further potential diminution of primary healthcare.
Cllr Drysdale also raised concern about the "significant and ongoing population growth immediately west of the current Perth City, in the vicinity of Methven village" which will "obviously mean rapid growth in demand for local healthcare services, and yet here we are, on the point of losing an existing surgery".
He called for the council's support in writing to NHS Tayside Primary Care Services, the Health and Social Care Partnership and representatives of the Victoria Practice calling for urgent meetings "to explore all possible safe options short of complete closure of the Methven Branch Surgery".But Almond and Earn councillor David Illingworth was sceptical over what urgent meetings would achieve.
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