The former Yetholm surgery. Kelso Medical Group Practice only announced it was closing its Town Yetholm surgery by pinning a letter to the front door of the Deanfield Place building in September 2019.
Patients in Yetholm were left facing a 16-mile round trip to Kelso’s Inch Road health centre for GP appointments .
The closure, said to be due to a drop in demand, came just a decade after health bosses had last proposed shutting the Yetholm surgery.
Back in 2008, however, they were forced to think again by a public backlash led by the village’s community council.
But because of the sudden closure in 2019 the community council wasn’t given the chance to launch any such campaign to save the surgery as it was taken somewhat unawares.