Councillor Simon Renwick, cabinet member on Fylde Borough Council, has voiced his opposition this week to Whitehall plans to replace local GPs' surgeries with impersonal super-surgeries.
It has been estimated that 1,700 family doctor surgeries could be closed down across England.
Coun Renwick said: "We already knew that the Labour Government is planning to close thousands of local Post Offices.
"Now I fear that local GP surgeries are in their sights.
"Patients will have further to travel and will be lucky to see the same GP twice."
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