Community group formally objects to GP boundary plans

community council to object to this.”

Ferry councillor Laurie Bidwell said: “While I’m sure residents, especially in the areas affected by this consultation, will be pleased to hear how their community council has been standing up for the Ferry, they will await the response from NHS Tayside with some trepidation.”

Councillor Kevin Cordell said: “Although it may only affect a small number of people moving forward, I don’t feel it can be right that the Ferry has 16,000 residents but new residents would be unable to access a doctor.”

Derek Scott, a councillor for the Ferry, said: “It seems to me that anyone who lives in the Ferry ward should be able, if they wish, to register with a medical practice in the ward.”

A spokeswoman of the Broughty Family Healthcare Partnership, which runs the surgery, said: “We have no comment to make at this time.

“We have followed the NHS protocols about a request to change boundaries and are now waiting for a response to the lengthy process.”

A spokeswoman for NHS Tayside said: “No formal response to the boundary change proposal has been received from the Broughty Ferry Community Council.

“Once the consultation period closes on March 17, all submissions received will be considered by the Board’s General Practice Advisory Committee at its next meeting in May.”

The health centre on Brown Street and Neil Cooney.