The recent resignations of both Health Secretary Shona Robison and Christina West, chief officer of Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), may perhaps give those like myself living on the Ross of Mull and Iona cause for hope that the single GP practice serving our area will be reinstated.
But it may also result in a vacuum in which nothing happens and the close connection between the GP and his patients is lost and large sums of NHS money continue to be wasted on locums.
It seems that the HSCP has been unable to take the obvious decision to advertise the post recently filled by Dr Frank which was applauded by the residents (who also signed a petition in great numbers) and saved around £3,400 a week on the Ross of Mull and Iona alone.
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