Abstain from downgrading or cutting completely the Accident & Emergency services at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital
Why is this important?
There is a plan to close the A&E unit and centralise A&E facilities at Canterbury.
This will risk the lives of the people who need this vital service. The time taken to travel to Canterbury from Thanet could mean the difference between life and death to those who are ill or involved in accidents.
I have a special needs son, who has global learning difficulties and severe epilepsy. When he suffers from epileptic fits, we often have to use the A&E facility at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital. I am sure that there are many others, who are in a similar situation, and need to do likewise.
I have started an online petition, to be sent to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, in order to try and save our A&E unit at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate.
This A&E unit is vitally important to the people of Thanet. Transferring services to Canterbury or Ashford would cost lives.
