Mike Penning, MP for Hemel Hempstead, led local hospital campaigners to No. 10 Downing Street to deliver over one thousand letters to Gordon Brown on Wednesday (25th Feb).
The letters had been posted in the giant post box in Marlowes on the day of the “Big No!” campaign and in special post boxed all over the Borough.
Mike said:
“We had a fantastic response to this campaign. Over 1,000 people wrote letters to Gordon Brown calling on him to step in to save our hospital.
“I call on the Prime Minister to read some of these letters to fully appreciate what the closure of our hospital will mean to local people. This is so much more than a petition - each person has had to take time to sit down think through their concerns and worries.”
Campaign organiser, Jan Maddern added:
“It was a great honour to be taking all these letters to Downing Street. I’d also like to thank everyone who took the time to write a letter. This is a very clear demonstration of local feeling towards the closure of our hospital and the way that our views on the matter have been consistently ignored.”
The A&E;, stroke unit, cardiac unit and intensive care are all either closed already or due to close next month.
| 
