Are Ottery, Honiton, Axminster and Seaton now classed as “rural communities” now they have no hospital beds, along with villages?
http://www.rsnonline.org.uk/press-releases/shortage-of-rural-doctors-puts-patients-health-at-risk
http://www.rsnonline.org.uk/services/rural-social-care-is-underfunded-–-network
http://www.rsnonline.org.uk/services/communities-blighted-by-patchy-rural-services
http://www.rsnonline.org.uk/analysis/are-rural-carers-overwhelmed-by-need