Cowardly Hewitt visits Hemel...but won't meet hospital campaigners.
29th September 2006
Mike Penning MP condemns Hewitt's "private" visit to Hemel Hempstead to meet "carers and service users".
Mike Penning, MP for Hemel Hempstead and outspoken campaigner to Save Hemel Hospital, has condemned news that Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, will visit Hemel but will not meet with local hospital campaigners.
An angry Mike Penning said:
“This is a slap in the face for the residents of Hemel Hempstead. When she received thousands of invitations from the people of Hemel to come to Hemel Hempstead to see our local hospital for herself, we were told there wasn’t enough time in her diary. Now she is visiting Hemel Hempstead but doesn’t have the courage to meet local residents and hospital campaigners.”
“It is a cowardly act to refuse to face the very people who pay her salary” he added.
