"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

How much avoidable suffering will have to occur before our hospital bosses come to their senses? 20,000 people signed the Visiter petition against the closure of Children's A&E while more than 4,000 people held a protest march.
We are now informed that the old Infirmary on Scarisbrick New Road is to be demolished - the reason given is that it is "no longer useable".
With a health village being built on the site, this health village will not replace the full A&E services for children that we had at the new hospital with X-ray machines etc.
This is further dilution of services to Southport's residents and visitors alike.

The emergency ambulance drivers will now have many options after picking a family up from a road traffic accident - father or mother go to the hospital, one injured child to the health village and a more seriously injured child to Ormskirk with probable further transfer to Alder Hey. Imagine the predicament of the ambulance driver - where does he go first?
We appreciate that in the past patients who required more specialist care than could be given at Southport were, quite rightly, transferred to other hospitals in the region - e.g. Liverpool's special burns unit at Whiston, whose own future is now also in doubt.

Remember that we, the taxpayers, are paying these highly paid professionals to run our health service. If they insist on not reinstating our children's A&E in Southport then we, in turn, must insist on stopping their salaries and giving the jobs to people who will.
With all the electioneering going on in the next few weeks, NOW would be a good time to bring the nonsense of our hospital services to national television. People may say that health services are being improved all over the country, so what chance of us having a bit of the action?

It is up to us, the people of Southport, all 90,000 of us, to make it clear that enough is enough and that we will not tolerate this ludicrous situation any longer.