I lost my family doctor & now it’s just clinical

FURY Connie’s local GP practice shut this month CONNIE Scott had a trusted GP surgery five minutes from home that she had used for over 60 years until it closed this month. Now the 89-year-old has a 40-minute round trip on four buses to her GP. In a video plea to save Osler House surgery in Harlow, Essex, she said: “This has always been our surgery and I feel they’ve sold us out. It’s an absolute disgrace what they’ve done to us.”

The first she and the surgery’s 3,300 other patients knew about the closure was a letter informing them it was to shut within weeks.

The great-grandmother signed up as a patient at Osler House when it first opened in 1955.

She said: “The family doctor CONCERN Stokes-Lampard of the Royal College of GPs knew all my girls’ names and would ask after them.

“There was such a community feel about the place but now there is such a huge turnover these days they don’t have time to get to know you.”