‘It is about time our MP put us first...’

SO, Dr Tim Kimber thinks a town of 30,000 people, which is projected to get bigger, is in no need of a proper hospital, clinic and health centre with facilities that do not require people, especially the elderly, to undertake a 14-mile round trip to the nearest hospital?
By The Newsroom
Published 5th Apr 2012, 08:45 BST

Does he realise that, if senior citizens use their free bus pass to get to Worthing, they cannot make an early appointment because the bus company will not let them board the bus until after 9.30am?

It then takes at least an hour to get there, plus another bus trip from the town centre to the hospital.

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Otherwise, it costs – train, taxi and, if you use a car, high parking fees and rising fuel prices.

As an O.A.P., I still have to pay taxes, so I am not a free ride, as some people imply – not all retired people are on enormous pensions.

As for Zachary Merton, has Dr Kimber any idea what an awkward place it is to get to?

It would have been better if that place had been pulled down and the site sold for housing, with the money used to improve the centrally-situated hospital we already had.

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I hope local people will make sure that, whatever happens to the Littlehampton Hospital site, it is not sold to developers. The old hospital was built originally with money and land donated by the Norfolk family and local people, and, therefore, it belongs to Littlehampton, not the NHS.

The NHS is hardly short of money, anyway – even when it underspent by £900m and the Chancellor in his budget took £500m of that, it left £400m for reinvestment,

It is about time our MP put us first, or else we should make sure he does not get re-elected next time.

K. Paine

Woodlands Road

Littlehampton

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