Call for residents to be reassured over boundaries

under-fives in the Ferry,” he said.

“The area has an ageing population and a lot of them will be at the surgeries already.

“But if someone from another area moves here they’ll may have to go across town to get to a doctor.

“It’s important that we keep abreast of what is going on with services in the area. The example we’ve been using of late is that there was recently an application to build 150 houses at Linlathen.

“While it was rejected by the Scottish Government, come 2020 that could be resubmitted – will people have to go to Whitfield and put extra pressure on there?

“There’s a sense that this consultation has been a box-ticking exercise — that they’ve written us a letter but they’ve already made their minds up.”

A spokeswoman for the Broughty Family Healthcare Partnership, which runs the Brown Street surgery, said: “The meeting will be part of the process that needs to be followed by NHS Tayside.

“We just have to wait until the outcome of this meeting, then we will discuss where to go from there.”

Neither Ancrum Medical Centre nor Invergowrie Medical Centre responded to the Tele’s requests for comment.

NHS Tayside had not responded to requests for comment at the time of going to press.

Broughty Ferry Health Centre on Brown Street and Neil Cooney.