Download our hospital campaign poster here (From Bucks Free Press)

Download our Wycombe Hospital campaign poster here

9:58am Wednesday 11th November 2009 in Hand Back Our Hospital By Oliver Evans

The poster

THE Bucks Free Press today calls on its readers to show their support for Wycombe Hospital by downloading and displaying a poster for the Hand Back Our Hospital campaign.

Click here to download the poster in pdf format (477kb).

You can print the poster to show your support for our campaign, which is calling for your views on the loss of A&E and women’s and children’s services from the hospital.

Send pics of your posters to bfpnews@london.newsquest.co.uk.

It comes as Conservatives Paul Goodman MP, General Election hopeful Steve Baker and Wycombe District Council member Darren Hayday visit Tory HQ to make their case for the hospital.

They will meet Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at Westminster where they will hand over hundreds of your opinions that you have sent to us.

Email your views to us at the address above or click here. to submit via our website.

Mr Goodman, MP for Wycombe, said it would be “irresponsible to raise false hopes” but hoped a Tory Government would get hospitals more cash.

Serious trauma cases were removed from A&E in 2005 and doctor-led births, overnight children’s and gynaecology care went last month.

He said: “We don’t have a magic wand to turn the clock back to 2005 when the decisions were made so we have to start from the position we find ourselves in today.

“The main problem with our local NHS is the lack of local control, the biggest complaint being whatever the public say it doesn’t seem to make a difference.”

He said getting Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust prestigious foundation status would give residents more control.

The status changes the way the trust is governed, with thousands allowed to become members and a council of governors set up to scrutinise managers. This is on hold because of a cash crisis.

Mr Goodman said the organisation which decides where funds go, NHS Buckinghamshire, has a “a long-standing structural deficit, which began when Labour took charge”.

Mr Goodman added: “I am, however, hopeful and would expect to get a fairer settlement from the Conservatives.

“That being said, I don’t think anyone will simply ride to the rescue.

“Any central government will expect NHS Buckinghamshire to get its own house in order as well.”

Mr Baker, selected last month as the Conservatives’ prospective parliamentary candidate, is “as aware about the issue as any candidate could be” he said.

Mr Hayday, who featured in the Bucks Free Press when his wife’s labour turned into an emergency, said: “The current government is doing nothing apart from closing services and wards down.

“We hope to get something out of Mr Lansley and bring it back to the people of High Wycombe.”

We will bring you news of the meeting later today.