Keep St Leonards Hospital Dorset open.

This hospital provides much needed bed space to help with bed blocking at Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals, it costs a lot less to keep a patient here than in a main hospital.

Our community hospital has served the local area for decades, it was donated to the local community by the Americans at the end of WW2. It has provided rehabilitation treatment for hundreds to get back to their homes quicker than a longer stay in our main hospitals and so releasing hospital beds for more needy patients.

This hospital is essential for stroke victims and other patients alike providing convalescent stay and clears vital beds in Poole and Bournemouth hospitals.

My dear friend ( 93 years young) is in St Leonards Hospital at this moment and she totally amazed by the caring more personal treatment she is receiving, she was very sceptical of going in but is now loving it she burst into floods of tears when she heard of it's future.

Closure of this hospital would be a disaster for the local community which in this part of Dorset is predominantly elderly who cannot protest themselves.

We must not let this happen.