Out of the merger of two Forfar medical centres comes a new single practice Chapelpark Healthcare Centre.
Opening later this year, the merged Academy Medical Centre and Ravenswood Surgery will operate from the existing site on Academy Street.
Chapelpark has been named after the old primary school opposite the practice.
Dr Andrew Thomson said: “We asked the public to make suggestions for a new name for the practice, which we wanted to reflect our intention to focus on supporting the health and wellbeing of our practice population.
“We were inundated with suggestions and gave our public participant group the unenviable task of shortlisting two from all the great ideas we received. They shortlisted Chapelpark and the Steeple.
“Patients then voted in large numbers for their preferred name and, once the votes were counted, Chapelpark came out as the clear winner.”
Describing the next steps in the process, Dr Nico Grunenberg said: “We are really excited to have a name for the new practice.
“Our focus will now shift to speaking to our registered patients about the new small practice teams we have created.
“The new practice will deliver healthcare to the local population through six small teams. Patients will interact with the same small team each time they contact the surgery and will receive improved continuity of and access to care when they need it.
“Each of the six teams will consist of GPs, practice nurses, healthcare assistants and administrative staff, along with named community nurses, health visiting staff and a locality pharmacy.
“We want to ensure good access to services and continuity of care based around our patients’ healthcare needs.”
Patients are asked to record their preferred team on an online survey that can be accessed at www.surveymonkey.com/r/forfarmerger.
Any patients who do not have computer access should contact one of the two practices to receive further information.