Whilst happy they are saying 'no more closures' to our A&E's etc, I have to say I simply do not believe it. Im sure they won't propose any further closures, because if they did, they would actually be managing nothing more than a series of moth-balled sites and one overcrowded failure. It is absolutely shamefull that an organisation that is supposed to support us has used the media and communications with propaganda style tactics to brutally lie in favor of bonus generating profit-before-health objectives.

Of course they won't be revisiting closure plans - why would they? This is nothing more than a false -planned- statement to 'restore' faith. We are simply not fooled. Attempts to treat people like children are simply childish and we see through them like glass.

"Local people have already spoken on those matters and this vision respects those decisions. - I suggest that comment is studied carefully because it is grossly incorrect. Yes, the local people have spoken, but in no way does a vision that simply caps off pre-assumed planned closures represent thousands of local people protesting for our hospitals. Human rights? what a joke. consultation? As a media specialist, I too could arrange any number of consultation methods until the answer I want is derived. Hmm... ask the people, have a jury, erm, focus groups.. anything in fact until the odds stack in favor of a pre-conceived idea. Shameful tactics - certainly not the vision of any person giving birth or in need of emergency health care in a town faced with significant growth - many of the houses built on the highly valuable hospital grounds.

As one of the significant majority ignored in recent consultations, I demand a revised statement from the hatchet management in our Healthcare system.

After all, simply count all responses from all areas of the consultation (conducted by known spin doctors, or consent manufacturers...) and the actual number of people choosing to retain services outweig