Mike Penning responds to delay in acute services move.

Following today’s announcement that acute services at Hemel Hospital will not close until March 2009, local MP, Mike Penning said:

“Whilst I, of course, welcome the delay in closing Hemel’s much needed acute services I am deeply disappointed that it is purely because of so-called ‘technical reasons’. I had hoped that it would have been because the NHS Trust had seen some sense and realised that a town the size of Hemel needs a fully functioning General Hospital.

“I am committed to fighting the closures and loss of A&E in Hemel. Every day people stop me to tell me that Hemel needs its hospital.”