7:44am Sunday 18th May 2008
By Citizen reporter
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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