ARGYLL and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership has confirmed that plans to merge two Kintyre GP practices are on hold.
It had been planned to merge Kintyre Medical Group, which consists of the surgery at Muasdale and its branch at Southend with the Campbeltown Practice and that remains NHS policy.
A Care Partnership spokesman said: ‘The plans to merge both practices have been put on hold at the moment but it does remain an option for the future.