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Growing lack of GP cover in rural communities is 'liable to cost lives'

Campaigners say opt-out contract means the ill and elderly in remote villages face agonising wait for medical aid By Judith Duffy Health Correspondent

IT'S a typical idyllic rural setting - a village with a café, post office and local store amid spectacular scenery. But residents of this tranquil corner of Perthshire say they are missing a vital GP service which could put lives at risk.