The closure of the local community hospital's only ward has dominated conversation in North Berwick Coastal ward for the last eight months.
East Lothian health bosses transferred staff from the ward to Haddington Community Hospital last September in a temporary move aimed at tackling staff shortages.
However there is anger at the continued closure of the ward and one local GP has said that people who have died at home from cancer since it shut "would have benefited from its support" in their final days.
