A meeting with the goal of securing the best possible providers of GP services in Lockerbie and Moffat took place on Tuesday.
The meeting of Lockerbie and District Community Council was attended by senior representatives of Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care Partnership (DGHSCP).
Speaking afterwards, Deputy Medical Director Dr Grecy Bell, left, said: “We were extremely grateful to be asked to attend the meeting of Lockerbie and District Community Council.
“It came after we made an approach to all active community councils in upper Annandale, offering to discuss the implications of Alba Medical Group’s decision to give notice on their contract to provide general practice medical services out of the towns of Lockerbie and Moffat with effect from May 31.
“We very much appreciate and share local communities’ concern about ensuring provision of good quality GP services, and discussion took place around the approach to the national tendering process designed to secure alternate providers.”
The tendering process for the GP contracts was launched on December 14, seeking expressions of interest from potential providers.
