MSP Jackie Baillie is at loggerheads with NHS bosses over the axing of a hospital bus link.

Jackie wrote to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde chief, Professor Jann Gardner, after news broke that the service 340 will end on June 28th.

The politician urged the board to reconsider and called for a meeting with Professor Gardner.

But the Dumbarton constituency MSP says she feels “fobbed off”, after her meeting demand was ignored and she was instead issued with a standard response.

The service 340, which has operated since 2009 and is currently provided by local bus firm McColl’s, ends o June 28th.

Penny pinching NHS bosses want to replace the subsidised service with their own free in-house transport, which will accommodate only staff and patients with a valid appointment.

Visitors will be left out in the cold by the changes, due to begin on June 29th.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde fund 90 per cent of the current service, while cash-strapped SPT cough up the remaining 10 per cent.

Health chiefs committed to providing a link for locals when services at the Vale of Leven Hospital were downgraded.

Communities in Helensburgh, Dumbarton and Alexandria are otherwise without direct public transport links to Paisley.

The MSP has taken up the mantle with NHS bosses and has pledged to fight on.

She said: “I will not be fobbed off by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.

“The 340 service is of vital importance to communities in Helensburgh and Lomond, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven, and simply must continue.

“It is unthinkable to leave these communities with only an infrequent link and leave visitors out in the cold and unable to see loved ones in hospital.

“To axe the current standard of provision is a betrayal to our communities.”

Jackie has written again to Professor Gardner and has demanded answers from the Scottish Government.