I have been sent a cutting from your paper for Wednesday where it was reported that the plans to save the Eaton Road Surgery have collapsed at a time when the council has approved plans for further increasing the local population by several thousand people by backing the development of skyscraper blocks of flats in Brighton Marina.

If this problem is not dealt with quickly the local A&E department of the Royal Sussex Hospital will be flooded out with anxious patients seeking help.

This is hardly joined up government. To increase the local population by several thousand without any medical provision or extra school places for that matter is not fair to council taxpayers.

I had attended that surgery for over 35 years, long before these two doctors who are retiring took over, and have seen that now there is no street parking and think it is not suitable but was designed originally for the population nearby.

A friend who was registered there has been able to register at the local purpose-built medical centre in Whitehawk but was told several months ago there were very few places available.

Now I read there are possibly over 3,000 patients who will have to find alternative provision.

It has also been reported that the Green Party is proposing to put up the council tax in April so that they do not have to cut provision for the sick so what is this?

Health care for all starts with your local GP. Where will the local nurses work from? Who is fooling who?

I know the local NHS is in crisis everywhere but in Brighton it is not helped by a local administration that allows building of new homes before local services can be provided.

Pamela Brickman Bridport Dorset