This month I call on all residents of Dacorum to help save Hemel Hospital…so I ask you to put ‘Bed Push’ in your diary for Sunday 8th October 2006 and underline it in red!! David Gauke, MP for South West Hertfordshire, and I will be leading a ‘bed push’ from Marlowes in Hemel to Watford Hospital. Even if you’re not a user of Hemel Hospital, we need your help. If Hemel closes it can only mean a greater demand on the already-stretched services at other local hospitals such as Watford and St Albans. This should be one of the most high profile “Save Hemel Hospital” events this year and we as much help as we can get. We will start at 10am at the bandstand in Marlowes on Sunday 8th October and push a specially-adapted hospital bed to Watford Hospital. We plan to stop for lunch and a rally in Kings Langley before proceeding to Watford. A hospital bed has already been donated and a local engineer has agreed to specially adapt it so that it is suitable for the journey – fitting it with brakes etc. The following week, David Gauke and I will present a petition to the Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt. We are also working with Berkhamsted’s Hospice of St Francis to make this a charity event. They have arranged sponsor forms and these are available from my office or my website www.mikepenning.com. I would very much appreciate your in this endeavour.
This event is additionally supported by Dacorum Hospital Action Group and the Campaign to Save the Birthing Unit.
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