Maidstone Weald Labour Party

As you may have seen before Maidstone Labour Party has asked the Secretary of State for Health to reconsider the immenent changes to Maidstone hospital. As part of this we agree with the following online petition and would encourage people to sign this to help in the campaign. This is from the petition:

Maidstone Hospital is to lose its blue-light service, the A&E
department is to be downgraded, and services switched to Pembury.
Pembury Hospital is old, inaccessible and in the centre of the
town. Parking is difficult, transport to and from it is nigh
impossible for those without cars, and there is no helicopter-pad
for the air ambulance. Maidstone Hospital is only 20 years old, it
has also been modernised and updated during that time, it is only a
couple of years ago that the A&E department had an extensive
update. The people of Maidstone don’t want it, the Borough and
County Council asked for a reconsideration but Maidstone Hospital, which is part of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have decided that it will go ahead. We ask that this decision be
seriously reconsidered.

Please click on the link below, or cut and paste it, thanks.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MaidstoneAandE/