A GP has said three out of five people who died at home from cancer since the closure of an East Lothian community hospital ward would have benefited from its support.
Dr Claire Doldon, GP partner at North Berwick Group Practice, said the closure of the Edington Hospital's ward had left people without the extra support it offered as they came to the end of their life.
And she said claims by health bosses that only two people from the town had been referred for palliative care to East Lothian Community Hospital (ELCH), in Haddington, since the Edington closed were misleading as people were reluctant to travel to the alternative facility.
