Patients may have to travel to Chelmsford for vital appointments after doctors visiting Burnham surgery were told to move their cars every three hours.

Visiting clinicians running weekly and monthly services, including psychiatric and pain clinics, have to find different parking space because of parking conditions enforced from February 1.

After Burnham Surgery appealed to Maldon District Council for help, the council said spaces at the Foundry Lane carpark needed to be shared and clinicians should pay for parking at Burnham station.