Patients will be offered free transport to see their doctors when a GP surgery closes.
Tempers were high when more than 60 residents from the Northway estate, Headington, Oxford, met Oxford City Primary Care Trust managers last night to hear what would happen when Northway Surgery shuts at Christmas.
Although the 700 patients registered at the surgery, owned by North Oxford Medical Centre, could transfer to the main branch in Woodstock Road, many elderly and infirm people are concerned about the two-mile journey.
PCT chairman Malcolm Fern pledged free transport would take people to the North Oxford Medical Centre when the community practice closed on Friday, December 28.
He said there would be three morning sessions at the centre every week specifically for Northway patients, and there were three possible transport options on those days.
A volunteer car scheme could be set up, or the current ring-a-ride service, which chauffeurs elderly and infirm people around Oxford in a mini-bus, could be expanded.
A taxi company providing door-to-door patient transport is a third option.
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