Cllr Jan Henshall, ­chairman, Kingswear Parish Council, writes:

I was interested to read the letters from Philip Rowe and David Drury, Chronicle, January 13. Is it the case, then, that not everyone in Dartmouth is ­content, as we have previously been led to believe?

Here in Kingswear we see the Dartmouth and Kingswear Community Hospital every time we look out of our windows and the staff leave their cars on our streets. I would have thought, then, that it is fairly obvious many of our residents would use the NHS facilities provided in the town in preference to travelling to Brixham.

One lady, after having ­broken her wrist, walked down to the ferry and would have been seen fairly quickly – the alternative for her would have been a bumpy bus ride to Brixham.

Only recently I have heard two distressing stories where Kingswear residents have died in a hospital in Torbay while waiting for a care package to be put in place.

Despite being NHS patients and residents of the South Hams – therefore receiving our social care from Devon County Council – we have been entirely written out of the debate by the Patients Participation Group, which is not representing our views.

The clinical commissioning group has drawn the line in the wrong place, consigning us to Torbay due to the refusal by Dartmouth Medical Practice to accept Kingswear residents onto its register.

The plan has clearly been based on information that is inaccurate and misleading, to say the least, and which serves only to fragment further the care that we receive and the community itself.