'I want my hospital back because...' you tell us why

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IT is crucial to have all the services needed in a town of High Wycombe's size, available without having to travel 20 miles.
M Abercrombie, High Wycombe

IT is important to have a good hospital service in Wycombe in order to save lives.
Janet Adams, Loudwater

FOR those of us who are pensioners, and others with no transport, the situation is impossible. The whole idea is unbelievable.
V and E Adey, retired, Lane End

I’m 80 and Stoke Mandeville is too far to go as patient or visitor.
Sybil Addison , Marlow

HAVING had excellent treatment, particularly in accident and emergency, this general hospital should stay.
Wendy and Hugh Aitken, Marlow

My daughter was born in Wycombe hospital just over a year ago. Given the size of town and local area supported by this hospital, and recent investment it makes no sense to degrade the standard of care offered to local residents. It can only introduce a new risk caused by delayed treatment due to extra journey time.
Gareth Aitken, Bourne End

My father fell ill last week and went into A & E and when we got there they sent him to Stoke Madeville. So, I had to drive him down and the whole journey down the windy and bendy roads my father was screaming in agony. This just caused more pain than needed. In addition it was a nightmare for my mother to go and visit him as she cannot drive and the public transport is not the greatest. Why can't we just have our own local hospital to actually be local, especially with the sky high taxes that we have to pay, I think health should be one of the top prorities. And by shifting our local hospital 20 miles away the government has definitely got its priorities mixed up. ACTION needs to be taken NOW before everything else starts to move too at an inconvenience to the whole community.
Shameem Akhtar, High Wycombe

GOING to Stoke Mandeville Hospital will be a long way to travel.
Mrs Joyce Allan, High Wycombe

AN area as large as High Wycombe needs a hospital with all services for accident, emergency and general treatments.
M J Allchin, High Wycombe

IN a town as big as High Wycombe, the hospital should cover all emergencies.
NF Allen, High Wycombe

EVERY town needs a facility to treat people. We pay taxes and it’s our right. Money comes second.
Yussuf Ally, High Wycombe

MUCH too far to travel and I would not feel happy getting there. Dangerous road for people who have to drive. For the size of High Wycombe we need a full supportive hospital.
Beryl Allnutt, Hgih Wycombe

WHY do we pay council charges to have to travel 20 miles to A&E? Its too far for the elderly. Dangerous road etc.
V Allnutt, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE has a large population and is growing due to the Government. We need more local facilities, not closures – emphasis on local. What are we paying taxes for? Less schools and no hospital.
Maureen Allen, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE needs a complete hospital, not part of one. Also, we shouldn’t have to travel to Stoke Mandeville Hospital as we get older.
R Allen, Flackwell Heath

2 years ago when I had my son I was told by hospital staff that Stoke Manderville could only just cope with the maternity patients they had then. So my concern is how are they going to cope with all of Wycombe and surroundind areas patients aswell? I am due to have a baby in June and would like to know that my ante/post natal care will not suffer as a result of the change.
Mrs L Anderson, High Wycombe

STOKE Mandeville is too far to go.
S.J Anderson, Marlow

After going to Aylesbury last week between 5 - 6pm we were caught up in roadworks close to hospital and my husband and I remarked good job we were not on our way to A and E at the hospital, nothing could have got through either way.food for thought for the powers that be.
Mrs J Andrews, High Wycombe

Have any of the people that made this decision driven that distance - for 30/40 mins-with someone in the car who is injured, passing out in pain...Only to then to wait 4 hours in a very small, not thought out 'Holding area' Wycombe is far better equipped to deal with the emergencies - They should try it out for 'real' IT DOESN'T WORK
Annoyed of Wycombe

I CANNOT get to Stoke Mandeville.
Mrs Antiss, Marlow

Wycombe needs to have a hospital offering the full range of facilities.
Helen Armitage, Hazlemere

It is essential to provide speedy access in case of emergencies for young families and we ‘oldies’ who may not have a car.
B Arundell, Tylers Green

AFTER travelling daily on the A4010 for approximately ten years I feel it is far too dangerous for patients going for accident and emergency treatment.
H Ashby, Lane End

I’M pregnant with my third child The care has been 100 per cent.
S Ashman,Wooburn Green

As an ex gynae nurse, I can see a lot of dangers in patients who are either miscarrying or suffering from ectopic pregnancies, having to travel a longer distance to get to Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Christine Ashworth,Naphill

High Wycombe is a town with a large population, and having worked in ICU at Wycombe hoispital, I know that a general hospital is definately needed. I also have family in the town who may need a hospital quickly at some time.
Maz Askew, Aberkenfig,Bridgend.

THE distance to Aylesbury is too far and too awkward – both for the sick and injured and also for visitors. It’s too much added stress.
Mrs V Astrup, Marlow

OAPs don’t like the long bumpy ride on the pot holes.
Mr D J Austin, High Wycombe

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AT some time all of our family have been rushed to Wycombe Hospital on three occasions: and going to Stoke Mandeville could have been fatal.
Niki Bailey, Flackwell Heath

I AM a midwife working at Wycombe maternity. I feel that it is a disgrace that local mothers cannot deliver locally.
Jennifer Baker, High Wycombe

PEOPLE will die without Wycombe Hospital’s services close to us.
R Balcomb, High Wycombe

WHEN my daughter was born, she had to spend time in SCBU at Wycombe. The thought of travelling to Stoke Mandeville on a daily basis would have been horrendous and harrowing at this already stressful time. These services should remain at Wycombe.
Matthew Baldwin, High Wycombe

A GROWING community like High Wycombe must have a fully serviced hospital or there will eventually be loss of life.
Nancy Baldwin, 79, High Wycombe

AYLESBURY is too far for trauma surgery and the unpredictability of childbirth.
S Balfour, Gerrards Cross

Services WILL BE taken away one at a time untill the health authority can justify the closure of the A & E department. This will have to go out to CONSULTATION. I have now been through this process twice. LIP SERVICE, The decision has been made, before consultation takes place. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Martin Ball, High Wycombe.

I DON’T want to die in an ambulance going to Stoke Mandeville.
Jim Banbury, Loudwater

STOKE Mandeville is too far away and a trip that long will seriously endanger lives.
Nadine Bar, Bourne End

WE need it here. What other services will be next on the list to be taken away?
Mrs J Barber, High Wycombe

I emigrated from High Wycombe to Canada and am saddened to hear of the possible loss of the Hospital in High Wycombe. My cousin's grandson was recently involved in a car accident in Wycombe and had to be taken to Slough for treatment.
Joyce Barker, Canada

WE have an even bigger population, have always had our local hospital to be proud of and it is easy to visit. I worked for NHS for 30 years. Why should little men in grey suits decide our future healthcare?
Mrs J Barrett,High Wycombe

THE district needs it.
G and J Barrett, Flackwell Heath

AS a local employee Stoke Mandeville is too far to travel in an emergency.
Debbie Barrett, Tring

If the Conservative District and Council take no notice of the public and what they want at the hospital, at the next election they should vote all of them out.
Roy Barlow, High Wycombe

A COMPLETE farce, lives will be lost and tragedy will happen.
Mrs S Barlow, High Wycombe

From personal experience last year. My daughter had a still-born baby just 5 weeks before she was due.Wycombe maternity unit handled everything with such care and kindness . So my point is if some-one has an emergency while pregnant it is ridiculous that they should have to travel over half an hour to Stoke Mandeville, it could mean life or death for a baby.
Gill Barrett, Lane End

I WAS sent to Stoke Mandeville with a serious knee infection because Wycombe A&E had no orthopaedic consultant available.
What madness running down local services when they should still be available at our hospital.
Ronald Barry, 73, Bolter End

I am a mother of two children that the hospital has saved.
Laura Barton, Beaconsfield

HAVING done the journey for four years when working in Aylesbury, I think it is much too far to go when ill or injured.
Valerie Beadle, Marlow

WE need our hospital. It’s down to money.
J Beale, High Wycombe

FOR an expanding town we should have all the relevant services available.
Rene Beale,Tylers Green

It is vital, if we are expected to travel to aylesbury in an emergency when there isnt even a direct road more people will die, also I had meningitis as a baby the team there were amazing and my parents subsequently have donated a lot of money to support the baby unit.
Sarah Beavis, Stokenchurch

A TOWN this size (and growing) ought to have a fully-equipped hospital.
Mrs I Becket, High Wycombe

The town is too big (and about to get bigger with the construction of new housing), we need an emergency service here in Wycombe. Also - wasn't there some legislation that said that if a town had a population of X thousand it had to have an A&E?
Paul Beeston, High Wycombe

I WAS brought up to send pocket money to fund the War Memorial Hospital. Now I am old and needing it – will it be there? Is this progress or respect?
John Bennell, 72, Stokenchurch

STOKE Mandeville Hospital is too far away for people in Marlow. We might need treatment quickly one day.
Mrs J Bennett, Marlow

PLEASE do not close! I have no wish to travel miles when having a heart-attack.
Mrs J Bentley,High Wycombe

High Wycombe and nearby homes and businesses need fast and easy access to A&E. Stoke Mandeville does not provide this.
CRJ Biffa, Beaconsfield

WE need access to accident facilities to remain in the Wycombe area.
Stephen Biggs, High Wycombe

TO move the hospital services away from their present site in the town centre would make it impossible for many people to visit.
M Bigby, High Wycombe

Wycombe Hospital saved my 3 year-old grand-daughter's life when she was knocked down by a 4-wheel drive, then a few years later saved mine when I had a heart attack. Neither of us would have lived if we'd had to go to Stoke.
A C Birks, Naphill

The quality of care given by Wycombe General Hospital to my mother in the last few months of her life was second to none.
D Bleasdale, Weston Turville

Stoke Mandeville is too far to go, the traffic is horrendous.
P Booth, Hazelmere

WYCOMBE is a community in its own right and should have complete hospital facilities available here, not 15 miles away.
Pam Boston, Downley

A TOWN of this size needs a general hospital within its town centre – not in another town.
Mrs Botton, Flackwell Heath

A town the size of Wycombe needs it's own hospital.If we are not careful we are going to end up as a cottage type hospital with Stoke being the main hospital. Surely we cannot let that happen.
Anne Bourne, Holmer Green

“It is too far to Stoke Mandeville My son in law had to go there last night and it was in complete chaos over there they looked at him did not really seem to know what they were doing and he has to go back over again today. We need our hospital back as it was Wycombe people need to be able to attend the local hospital and so do their relatives. My daughter has twin girls and she  had to pick him up at 10.30 at night the girls had to sleep at my house the night and not every body is able to do that, It is ridiculous. Had it been Wycombe he could have got a taxi but the cost from Stoke Mandeville would have been high. Please get our hospital back.”
Mrs Mary Bowden, Lane End

I HAVE been taken to Accident and Emergency at Wycombe on several occasions. I know Stoke Mandeville Hospital would be too far for me to go.
Peter Bowker, Stokenchurch

It seems insane to move emergency surgery from a hospital within a mile of a busy motorway junction to one accessed from winding country roads and residential areas. How many people will die or be left permanently injured after the next horrific motorway crash? The twenty minutes minimum that will be spent ferrying them to Aylesbury could well be the difference between life and death.
Mrs B Bowles, Great Kingshill

IT is easier to get to Wycombe Hospital. They are helpful to me. There are no up and downs for people who have babies. We’ve got to fight.
Kim Bowles, High Wycombe

WE live in a town, not a village.
L Bramley, High Wycombe

THE bigger the town, the less resources. We need our own general hospital.
J Brant, High Wycombe

THE roads from Wycombe to Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville are not at all suitable for carrying emergencies. I do not feel that residents lives and safety have been given any consideration. Its just money money money. You cannot put a price on a life.
Mr & Mrs Brice, High Wycombe

THEcommunity around High Wycombe is increasing rapidly and the need is there. It already needs to be expanded for facilities, not reduced.
Christine Brittin, Holmer Green

“High Wycombe is a large town and we need a hospital with all services.  People are not going to survive the journey to Stoke Mandeville!  In labour, the journey from Holmer Green to High Wycombe was traumatic enough - let alone Stoke Mandeville!”
Sue Broadhurst, High Wycombe 

It is ridiculous that in an emergency Stoke Mandeville is now the nearest hospital. High Wycombe is far more central to many facilities including the motorway. This decision was certainly not made in the best interest of those living in and around High Wycombe.
Clare Brooke, High Wycombe

WE have no personal transport so cannot get to Stoke Mandeville. The bus stop for High Wycombe is almost opposite the door.
Mr and Mrs Brown, Great Missenden

BOTH my wife and myself have been in Wycombe Hospital and I feel we need a local hospital. We pay enough council tax.
Mr Brown, High Wycombe

I LAY on a trolley for five hours and then was sent to Stoke Mandeville. My family visted all over Christmas, all the way to there. What madness.
J Brown, 84 Beaconsfield

Stoke Mandeville is too far away from High Wycombe in a real emergency and the roads are not good enough.
Kathleen Brown, High Wycombe

As a detached youth worker ,while working on the street with young people and there is a accident Stoke mandeville hospital is far away.
Mrs M Bruce, Chesham

MY DAUGHTER was born in the Special Care Baby Unit 15 years ago. She would not be here today if not for them.
Sandra Brunswick, Hazlemere

I WAS in the special care baby unit when I was born and I don’t want it taken away.
Sarah Brunswick, Hazlemere

I trained there in l972 and it was a wonderful hospital. Also with the size of High Wycome and areas, Stoke Mandeville is way to far in an emergency. The people of High Wycombe deserve to have access to health care in the quickest safest way. I suppose nothing will change until someone dies who could have been saved had the hospital been available as before. I can't believe that the decision makers think that it is ok to move everything, but then again, they always get the help when they are in need.
Christine Buck (Morris) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

DUE to the rota system now introduced, you see a different consultant at Stoke Mandeville each week.
Mrs M Buckle, Hazlemere

High Wycombe is a large town and growing. It is vital to maintain all hospital services. Transporting a sick and/or injured person to Stoke Mandeville is inhumane.
Sheila Budd, Marlow

I had my first child at 45yrs old at Wycombe Hospital last August. Without the Hospital, its team and the care and support it gave me we would not have our perfect son.
Mrs Susan Buick, Marlow

A RECENT visit [to Wycombe] was to a half empty hospital. How soon before its total closure?
Ms J Bull. Princes Risborough

MY neighbour fell. An ambulance was called and he was taken to Stoke Mandeville at 2am – which was a long way for him.
A Bullock, High Wycombe

Stoke Mandeville Hospital is hell to reach even with a car. The distance between here and there could be a matter of life and death.
Mrs B Burgess, Hazlemere

WHY rebuild parts of town when hospital facilities are being cut back?
Mr and Mrs Burnard, Lane End

WE need Wycombe Hospital because our age may mean that we may not be able to get to Aylesbury.
Mrs Burns, Hazlemere

STOKE Mandeville is too far. An old man I know was taken to Stoke after a fall but would not follow up because he could not stand the journey.
Sheila Burnkell, Beaconsfield

THE distance to travel is life threatening and there are those who do not have any transport.
Susan Burnham, retired Wycombe Hospital nurse, High Wycombe

WE need to keep our local hospital open and running for the needs of the community.
June Burr, High Wycombe

ALL patients have a better survival rate in hospital during their golden hour with doctors and nurses than with a paramedic.
S Busby, High Wycombe

WE need the hospital at Wycombe. Journeys for treatment, especially in winter, will result in unnecessary suffering and deaths.
Mr Bustin, High Wycombe

PLEASE retain all services at Wycombe. Stoke Mandeville is too far.
Eric Butler, Downley

PLEASE make them think again. We all need our hospital in High Wycombe.
Mrs B Butler, High Wycombe

DO not alter our services - we do not deserve this sort of treatment.
Denise Butler, High Wycombe

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Just can’t see any way I could travel to Stoke Madeville without my husband to drive me there, as I don’t walk far.
Mrs P Cadman, Flackwell Heath

With a two-year-old toddler and elderly parents, a local hospital offers immediate and urgent care when I need it.
Sharon Campbell, High Wycombe

My husband and I are in our 70s, we need a local general hospital in Wycombe, not one miles away.
George & Jean Campbell

“There are a large number of sports played in the area, inevitably there will be injuries requiring ambulance attendance.  The ambulance service admit themselves that they lose 2 hours having to travel from Stoke Mandeville. We are right next to busy motor way, what is going to happen to victims of accidents?  Case proved I think”
Richard John Cameron English, High Wycombe

THE ill-advised reorganisation is unsafe and manifestly in- appropriate to an urban centre of the size and demands of High
Wycombe.
Mrs Carol Cain, High Wycombe

IT is very important to have a local hospital. It could save lives.
T Campbell, High Wycombe

IF they don’t reverse these decisions, accident victims will die and people without cars and their children will lose out.
Mrs G Cann, Flackwell Heath

High Wycombe and its people need their own Hospital. This is yet another cost cutting exercise by our Government.
Tracey Carmichael, Stokenchurch

THE needs of the community are already not being met through “Phoenix”. Don’t take a commodity we already have.
Kelly Carswell, High Wycombe

A TOWN of this size with no full hospital service makes no sense. We all deserve local attention when we most need it.
Marian Carton, High Wycombe

Both my children were born at Wycombe. Our daughter was born in July 2002 and wasn't born in the maternity unit as it was being refitted - now it's being closed - what a waste of money! Our son was born prematurely in January and sadly did not survive, the staff at Wycombe were fantastic through a really rough time and we shouldn't lose this valuable - and not very old - unit.
Mrs L K Cass, Flackwell Heath

 “Ridiculous a town the size of Wycombe is to lose its ability to treat emergency cases.  It is a good thing that elective operations will not now be cancelled for emergencies (or so we are told) but we need BOTH facilities.”
Eva Catchpole, Totteridge

It cannot be a responsible decision to take facilities away from a growing town. There is no point in continuing with other advances for the town if the infrastructure is being undermined.
Pat Cavill, High Wycombe

WE’LL break our neck and queue at A&E. The stretch of road between High Wycombe and Stoke is hazardous, narrow, winding, unlit and wild animal territory.
C Chamiwall, High Wycombe

MORE housing, shopping centres supermarket, leisure facilities, busier motorway. That equals more people needing urgent hospital treatment. Wycombe is growing, not shrinking.
Ruth Chan, Downley

I'm an old fogey and Stoke Mandeville Hospital is too far to visit or be visited!
Mrs Eileen Chapman, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE Hospital belongs to us. The people of Wycombe paid for it. We need it here, not in Aylesbury.
Mr & Mrs Chapple, High Wycombe

STOKE Mandeville is too far for people who have no cars.
Bridget Chattaway, High Wycombe

HIGH Wycombe is a big town already and it is still expanding.
It doesn’t seem right to move vital hospital services away, especially as far as Stoke Mandeville.
N Chaw, High Wycombe

I WANT a local accident department for my whole family, including full time specialists for my children.
Jean Chandler, High Wycombe

IT’S a good hospital in a good position.
T Cherry, Great Kingshill

RESIDENTS of Wycombe have worked hard with local doctors and nurses to make it the excellent hospital that it is.
Myrtle Church, 72, High Wycombe

The distance is too far. The roads too bumpy and windy and the suspension in a ambulance nonexistent. Pure torture.
Angela Churchill, Marlow

HIGH Wycombe is a big enough town to have a complete hospital of its own.
Mrs B Coates, High Wycombe

HIGH Wycombe needs its own fully equipped hospital.
V Cockerill, High Wycombe

WHEN my mother-in-law collapsed we rang 999 and it took a long time for the ambulance to arrive. We asked why they were delayed and they said it was because they had to come from Aylesbury. Bring back our hospital.
R E Cooper, Marlow

How can anybody justify a town the size of Wycombe plus it's outlying areas not having a complete hospital of it's own? It is complete madness for the sake of a few pounds per patient.
I'm also sure the residents of Aylesbury will not take kindly to longer waiting lists because of the "influx"
Pauline Copper, Marlow

IT is far too long to travel to Aylesbury.
Mrs Cowling,Stokenchurch

TOO far to travel.
John Cowling, Stokenchurch

THE journey is too long for the elderly and disabled.
Gladys Clark, Marlow

The town is too large not to have one. How much tax revenue do the inhabitants of High Wycombe pay compared to Sedgefield?, and I bet Sedgefield has a hospital.
Michael David Clarke, High Wycombe

“Last year I had a baby. Apart from the labour being very quick and I wouldn't have made it to Aylesbury!! She developed problems and had to be in SCBU for 5 days. She would have died had that facility not been in Wycombe. I am also pregnant now and due in April. I am worried that my new baby will need special care and i won't be able to make it to the hospital on time.  It is totally ridiculous to expect thousands of women in Wycombe to travel 20 miles to have a baby.!!!!  I also have to say that the SCBU unit is one of the best in the country.. surely the SCBU in Stoke Mandeville should be moved to HW!!!”
Sarah Helen Clarke, High Wycombe

I’m very disappointed and sadden by the news of this move of our hospital and hope the politicians will change their minds and hand back our multi purpose hospital. Its a very scary thought going to hospital for any reason and what eases this is the fact that your friends & family are around and can be with you. Now with the move you’re on your own as not many people have time to travel. If anything happens now not many people can afford to get to and from Stoke Mandeville or Aylesbury. Also when you’re sick you don’t want to be travelling over 40 minutes to get treatment. We are the people who use the hospital and know why we need to keep it here and so that’s why I think everyone should join this fight too and save our hospital.
J Clarke

I MAY have an accident while I am at work and I will definitely get lost trying to find a new place which will delay my treatment.
M. Fujita Clarkson, Oxford

The main reason that High Wycombe should have it's own fully functioning hospital is the journey along the A4010 to Stoke Mandeville. This road barely qualifies as an 'A' road, and the 30+ Minutes that the journey takes will be very taxing for anybody in poor health, not to mention the ambulance drivers.
Roger Coates, High Wycombe

LIFE is full of more dangers these days so I just cannot understand why we see a reduction in facilities. High Wycombe is sprawling out and to be expected to get to Aylesbury to save lives is crazy. Are we going to see more accidents as ambulances try so much harder to get emergencies to Aylesbury? I am staggered by this decision.
Michael Collard, Prestwood

WHY expand the town but downgrade the facilities?
Mr and Mrs Cottier, Tylers Green

THE distance is too much. The conditions for travelling to Aylesbury are terrible.
J D Croft, High Wycombe

“It is stupid to build a fantastic hospital and then expect people to drive passed Wycombe Hospital and all the way to Stoke Manderville lives are being put in danger. Leave our hospital as it is......”
Lynda Cripps, High Wycombe

“The high population necessitates it. Dangerous (to patients), time consuming and expensive in time and money to travel so far, especially on such a busy route.”
Pamela Jean Crook, Flackwell Heath

I am a pensioner. The hospital is very handy for me, Stoke Mandeville isn’t.
P Crook, Sands

My Dad has been admitted as an emergency 3 times in the last 4 months, he didn't even need emergency surgery but they still wanted to send him to Stoke Mandeville which is simply too far for him - and us - to go. I found that if you refuse to go they will sometimes cave in, mainly because the staff disagree with it too!!!
Mrs Rosalind Curtis, Walters Ash

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Without Wycombe Hospital diagnosing Ii had a Heart problem when I didn't realise I was ill I'd probbably be dead by now...
Jamie Dale, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE has always had a hospital, and without one here it would be fatal, especially for the elderly.
C Daniel, High Wycombe

FOR older people who need to visit loved ones in hospital Stoke Mandeville is too far to travel.
Mr JM and Mrs AS Darby, Penn

“I don't want to spend the "golden hour" with one of my children or loved ones on the road to Stoke Mandeville!”
Debbie Darby,Wycombe

WHAT’S the point of having a wonderful new town without a hospital. Remember the first Eden Project?
W Darvill, High Wycombe

A FULL accident and emergency unit is needed in an expanding town.
Mr Davies, High Wycombe

I’M getting older and Stoke Mandeville is so far away when I stop driving.
Mr J Daw, High Wycombe

WE need a local updated hospital for every NHS service, and waiting lists need to be reduced. Other facilities are too far away.
S Dennigan, Hazlemere

IT’S not about “can't afford to have it” – you've got to have it. They saved my brother's life after accidents in 1993 and again in 2003.
Dorothy Dawson, High Wycombe

IT’S false economy to move the emergency and children’s wards to Stoke Mandeville. What idiot thought that one up?
M Dean, High Wycombe

“People in Wycombe are not able to get to Stoke Mandeville that easily.
“It’s not fair,”
Sue Derrick, Totteridge

WE desperately need an A&E and general hospital for this area, especially near a main motorway.
Mrs M Dobson,Great Kingshill

Wycombe Hospital serves a large catchment area and a huge number of people. Stoke Mandeville is too far away, and I shudder to think how many people will suffer because of the distance. We need all the facilities that Wycombe Hospital used to offer, but on our doorstep, and not 40 minutes' drive away.
Ruth Dobson, Marlow

THE people of High Wycombe have paid for it through taxes. We should take to the streets and fight for our hospital.
Leo Duggan, 70, High Wycombe

My daughter is ill with a kidney condition and ward 7 at Wycombe Hospital has an excellent open-door policy, allowing my daughter to go in at any time and be seen by a doctor and admitted if necessary. With Wycombe being so near to us and being unable to drive this is extremely important if she develops a kidney/urine infection. As I am also pregnant with my second child I would like their care to be continued at Wycombe, but with Maternity and Children being moved to Aylesbury this would be impossible.
Mrs Megan Dugmore, Walters Ash

MY life has been saved by swift transport by car and direct admission to ward via A&E.
Malcolm Dunlop, Beaconsfield

STOKE Mandeville is too far as Wycombe is right on top of where I live.
E J Dunn, High Wycombe

IT’S ours!
Jane Dunsterville, High Wycombe

A GREAT town like High Wycombe deserves a better fate than to be left with a hospital that is second rate.
Cllr Margaret Draper, High Wycombe

“How can Wycombe Hospital services be decimated while the population of Wycombe District is expanding?”
Mr. Michael R. Drury, High Wycombe

STOKE Mandeville is too far as Wycombe is right on top of where I live.
EJ Dunn, High Wycombe

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AT Christmas last year my brother broke his leg and was rushed to A&E. All the staff there were brilliant, and he was moved to a ward and the next day he had surgery. All our family live in High Wycombe and being Christmas it meant we could all visit him without any travel difficulties.
Wycombe Hospital provides this town with all the health care that a large town needs. Wycombe should be proud to have such a good hospital. You have my full support for your Hand Back Our Hospital campaign.
Sarah Easden, Address supplied

MORE houses in Wycombe and Marlow and a new shopping centre means more people and no proper hospital services for over 20 miles. How ridiculous.
Mr and Mrs East, High Wycombe

I travelled to Aylesbury (via Stoke Mandeville) last Tuesday morning early. There was a accident on the main road from Chinnor to my destination, and the tail back was over 3 miles. What if an ambulance were caught in this kind of road hazard with an emergency on board?
Carol Eastwood, Radnage

STOKE Mandeville is too far to go and lives will be lost.
S.N Edwards, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE Hospital is within a reasonable distance for people in Beaconsfield. By the time we reach Stoke Mandeville we’d probably be dead.
K Elford, Beaconsfield

I HAVE small children and if, God forbid, any serious life threatening incident was to occur, we would have to travel miles for emergency aid. It is simply not acceptable. Give it back to us.
Mrs S Ellahi, High Wycombe

HAND back our hospital because this town has grown and needs more help and not taking away what little we have.
I will be leaving Wycombe this year as I can't stand living here anymore. I’m furious with the way that Wycombe has been run.
It is now what it used to be and it has gone downhill. I certainly don’t want to bring up my daughter here and I am now scared to have another child.
I had problems with my daughter’s birth resulting in an emergency Caesarean and I found it comforting that my hospital was so near. But not anymore. I am furious with how Wycombe has been run and I am disgusted with the Government.
Mrs Jodie Elliott, High Wycombe

LOCAL hospitals should provide services for local people, especially for A&E and maternity services when travelling around should be minimal.
Mr H B Elliot, Beaconsfield

LOCAL people need local services.
J Ellis, High Wycombe

WITH all of the new blocks of flats being built more capacity will be required not less.
Mr and Mrs J Elphick High Wycombe

A fantastic hospital, which [did] included one of the best maternity units in the country, staffed by caring professionals with thousands of pounds raised/donated by grateful local supporters/patients is being destroyed by amateurs, because it works. GIVE OUR HOSPITAL BACK!
John Everson, Penn

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It defies belief that a town of the size of Wycombe won’t have full facilities to cope with any situation that may arise.
MC Farmer, Hazlemere

Patients lives are being put at risk in favour of streamling our already flagging national health service. The NHS needs more funding not a reduction of services.
James F, Chesham

“No local transport, how is moving to Aylesbury saving? More missed appointments. Both Slough and Aylesbury are out of the way. Early treatment saves lives. Ambulances overworked now. Absolutley ridiculous idea.”
Pearl Fassnidge, Flackwell Heath

It is at the right place, near to home, very convenient, clean, hard working with loveable, happy, helpful staff.
Mrs ML Fearon, High Wycombe

“Both my children were born in wycombe hospital and both needed the special care Unit, anyyone who has been in the special care unit will know what a fantastic job all the staff do and try to make the family part of the unit which really helps when you have child in a serious condition. Maybe the people making the decisions should visit and see what great work the staff at wycombe hospital do, then travel to Aylesbury and see what its like in an amblance for 30-40mins before you see anybody”
Anthony Field, Saunderton

THe older we get the more we need a hospital within easy reach for treatment or for patients.
Mrs J Fish, Wooburn Green

THERE are too many people in High Wycombe area. We need our hospital. Too ill or multiple injuries and you have to go to Stoke Mandeville. All that way, – 20 miles? You could be dead on arrival.
Christine Fitzsimons, Stokenchurch

IF I become ill I have no car to get to Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Allan Fletcher, Downley

“We might as well go abroad. Have we not got any rights? What happens if you don’t drive?”
David Fletcher,High Wycombe

WE need it, we want it. Stoke Mandeville Hospital is too far to travel.
J Flint, 80, Stokenchurch

It has been proven that patients recover quicker when they are visited and cared for by loved ones. The journey to Stoke Mandeville from HW will be impossible for some, so their loved ones won't have visitors. We need a hospital that is accessible. My husband was recently transferred from HW to Stoke Mandeville. The journey in the ambulance made him feel worse. Luckily I drive but I can't even begin to imagine making the journey by public transport.
Nicola Flintham, Loudwater

IT’S only sensible with the area growing and the amenities there. Please reconsider.
Daphne Folley, Chinnor

MY daughter spent five nights in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. She was transferred at 3am. It’s 50 miles a day to visit twice a day and £30 petrol plus parking. This should have been done at Wycombe Hospital which is a mile from our house.
Anita Ford, High Wycombe

A TOWN of Wycombe’s size needs a hospital.
Mr D Foster, High Wycombe

A TOWN of Wycombe’s size needs a hospital.
Mr D Foster, High Wycombe

I have twice had an emergency operation for perforated bowel, both at night. I dread to think what if I had to go to Stoke. Too far!
Mrs E Fox, High Wycombe

THE people who made the decision to redudce services in High Wycombe are not listening to the people here who use Wycombe Hospital and have voiced many valid and obvious reasons why the service should stay “local.”
J Fraser, High Wycombe

It is unbelieveable that a large town like High Wycombe should have the quality of it's health service cut and moved to another town. What do people do if they can't drive? The extra expense of having to travel to Stoke Manderville is not available to lots of people. This stupid decision should be scraped!
Sharon Freeman, Stokenchurch

“I understand that trauma nurses have been relocated from Wycombe to Stoke Manderville, which means that trauma patients brought to Wycombe by their relatives, are not being properly stabilised prior to being transferred.This is a disaster for our community!”
Heather Funnell, Marlow

I THINK it is very important to keep the full service at Wycombe Hospital. What's a hospital if it is not fully functioning. Money really shouldn't be the issue here. It should also be in the interest of the Government, as healthier, more satisfied people will stand behind the Government in the future. I can't believe the politicians don't have the brain to think how they would profit from this.
Gonca Friedrich, High Wycombe

DOING cost effective things are not the most important.
Quality of life is the most important and removing these vital facilities from Wycombe will prove to be detrimental to all.
Mrs A Fryer, Great Kingshill

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MY mother went to Wycombe General as emergency 15 weeks ago and is still there. I could not travel daily to Stoke Mandeville.
Judy de Gelas, Widmer End

I am too ill to travel to stoke and do not drive due to a medical condition. always satisfied with care at WGH and both children born there and they survived because of care in WGH SCBU.
Catherine Geldart, Gerrards Cross

I HAVE lived in Wycombe all my life and we have always had a hospital. Lives will be lost.
Audrey Gellert, High Wycombe

“If there had been no trauma services at wycombe hospital I would have died. I hope others don't pay the price for this decision.”
L George

OUR own hospital would mean less travelling, trauma and costs for patients and families. Eden should mean happiness for hospitals as well as shops.
Patricia Gerrard, High Wycombe

My elderly mother living in Loudwater needed 24 hours observation after a fall. Even this could not be done at Wycombe and I had to take her to Stoke Mandeville. She is on Warfarin and could have had internal bleeding.
Mrs Lynne Gibbon, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE Hospital is a wonderful place as it is so leave it alone. Stoke Mandeville is too far away.
I think it is disgusting.
L Gilby, High Wycombe

IT is too far to travel between hospitals.
Neil Gill, Hughenden Valley

A HOSPITAL in High Wycombe should be accessible around the clock for local people, especially in an emergency. Lives could be lost.
Mrs S Gilligan, Holmer Green

Not everyone has the means to travel to Stoke Mandeville.A town as large as High Wycombe needs a properly functioning hospital.
Mr Roy Glayzer, High Wycombe

Stoke Mandeville Hospital is simply too far away. Lives will be lost to save money. Jobs will also be lost. An area this size needs an increase in services, not a reduction. The people who live here have made their feelings clear. It is time the Government listened.
Sarah Glayzer, High Wycombe

High Wycombe is a large town which needs a fully functioning hospital. We have many excellent facilities here: why not an excellent hospital too?
Mrs Sandra Glayzer. High Wycombe

IT is unrealistic and will cost lives for Stoke Mandeville to serve both Aylesbury and High Wycombe.
Zoe Glenister, Lacey Green

We are pensioners and live the other end of Marlow Bottom, a half an hours walk to pick up the 328 bus into Wycombe. It would be impossible to get across country on and off buses, for treatment or to visit , tie up bus times weatherwise and walk alone half an hour back down the lane.
Mr and Mrs R Goldsmith , Marlow Bottom

“I thinks it’s terrible what’s happening to Wycombe Hospital. All my children were born at that hospital and if anything had happened to them I would have hated to have had to travel all the way to Stoke Mandeville.”
Gillie Goodchild, Widmer End

I'm 20 and over a year ago I had my first son. The midwives were lovely, they didnt critise or anything. They came to check on me every 10 minutes to make sure i was ok. I'm due to have my second baby in December there and if they move it to aylesbury I will be having home births as by the time I have got to Aylesbury I would have had it. Please dont move it as it is the best hospital going.
Nikki-Lorraine Gough, High Wycombe

HIGH Wycombe is a major commercial and residential town and the people in the area should be granted local medical assistance in an emergency.
R Gould, High Wycombe

Our town of Wycombe is growing, with a major new town centre imminent, and several of the countries best schools attracting more residents. It is ludicrous (and unbelievable!)that at the same time the Government is effectively restricting local NHS services when they should be expanding. Crazy!
John Graham, High Wycombe

A town the size of Wycombe needs a hospital to deal with alll eventualities. We do not want to travel to Aylesbury
Mrs B Grapes, Flackwell Heath

A general hospital is a necessity within High Wycombe! Lives will be lost as a result of the changes! The amount we pay in council tax its scandalous what the authorities are doing. Also local people raised money through appeals for the facilities only to find that they are being taken to another hospital, its a complete disgrace and the authorities should be ashamed of themselves.
Simon Gray, High Wycombe

AN area the size of Wycombe and district needs its own general hospital with full emergency services.
Sybil Gray, Downley

HOW do people without cars manage the journey? Even with a car it is not easy.
Mrs R Green, Marlow

STOKE Mandeville will be too far to go when we are in a rush.
P. Green, Wooburn Green

THE health authorities have singularly failed to prove their case openly and conclusively for change in the face of total hostility from the public. What has happened to democratic accountability?
Christopher Green, High Wycombe

Our 11yr son has a rare endocrine disorder. When he becomes unwell with a virus it has the potential to put him in a life threatening situation unless he has an emergency injection of steroids and is rehydrated. Paramedics are not trained or allowed to administer this injection. The delay in his condition being stabilised by travelling the extra distance to Stoke Mandeville hospital could cause him untold problems.
Catherine Greenwood, Hazlemere

I DON’T want anyone to die on the road to Aylesbury. This will happen if emergency services are only available at Mandeville. Does Tony Blair wan’t people dying outside Chequers?
Amanda de Grey, High Wycombe

My son owes his life to the hospital after being born there very prematurely.
Jaqui Grey, Chalfont St Peter

WELL qualified ambitious medical and administrative staff will not be attracted to a hospital offering such depleted services.
Mrs D F Griffiths, High Wycombe

IT is ridiculous to expect people to travel the distances. I want to see the justifcation for this policy change because saving money does not mean saving lives.
Teg Griffiths, High Wycombe

OVER the years my daughters have had to use the hospital a lot, I feel it will be life-threatening to move it.
P J Griffiths, Beaconsfield

It took two ambulances and one first responce team to get an elderly lady to hospital with a broken hip. How does this save money or give us a better service. We live 3 miles from Wycombe General The lady is now in Stoke Mandeville without any vistors during the week how can pensioners, like her friends afford the fares on pensions from High Wycombe to Stoke.
Linda Griggs, Flackwell Heath

I LIVE in Marlow and do not drive.
Mrs H Grinter, Marlow

A TOWN the size of High Wycombe needs more medical facilities, not less!
Mrs Greenwell, High Wycombe

A TOWN as large as High Wycombe needs a fully operational hospital. As the town is growing, how can they justify a hospital with fewer services?
Sonia Gaua , High Wycombe

THE transfer of services to Stoke Mandeville is ludicrous. It will cost lives.
Mark Grinyer, High Wycombe

Marlow to Aylesbury is too far along an unsuitable road for emergency vehicles. are they waiting to see how many people die.
Helen Gryckiewcz, Marlow

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Lives are valued compared to time, distance, energy and financial constraints.What do we value more,life or death or an incident before change? Act now, or regret?
Sultana Hadadi, High Wycombe

Closeness in an emergency. Excellent treatment after I was rushed there with a coronary. Any further I may have died.
Paul Hagyard, Beaconsfield

THE added distance will cost lives.
Gary Haig, Hazlemere

HIGH Wycombe is a large town. People will die as a result of this. I pay my taxes and National Insurance and I vote.
Monica Hailstone, High Wycombe

WHAT is the point in travelling to Stoke Mandeville to have a baby, because you will probably have had it before you get there?
Rebecca Hailstone, High Wycombe

“It's unfair to send a 96 year old, frail elderly lady who sustained a minor head injury after a fall in a care home in High Wycombe,to A&E in Stoke Mandeville. It's unfair to subject the vulnerable and frail members of our society to a 45 minute ambulance journey on minor roads when they are already frightened and disorientated, it just adds to their anxiety. She was returned back to the care home well after midnight. Don't they deserve a higher level of care.This is also not cost effective to the tax payer as an ambulance also had to bring her home.It would have taken 2 minutes to get to Wycombe A&E.It makes no sense.”
Deborah Haisman, Marlow

The maternity unit is superb, both our children came into the world there. It is an essential asset for a busy and bustling town like Wycombe.
Teresa Hall, High Wycombe

WE need a good hospital
J Harding, Lane End

I’VE lived in High Wycombe for 50 years and have used Wycombe Hospital many, many times. This really is very frightening.
M Hartnell, Downley

My first baby will luckily be born at Wycombe while it remains a full maternity unit, but it scares me that if I have any more children and choose to go to Wycombe as it is closest to where I live, if things start going wrong that I have to be stuck in an Ambulance and sent up to Stoke Mandevile putting both me and my baby at risk.
Anna Harvey, Seer Green

Stoke Mandeville is half an hour away from High Wycombe along country roads - the last thing people need when there is an illness in the family is to have an hour's round trip to a hospital, when one exists on their doorstep which could previously meet their needs, and the last thing our country roads need is a constant stream of traffic back and forth to Aylesbury. For once, think of the patient and family experience before thinking of money!
Elizabeth Hallows,High Wycombe

I wish for the hospital to remain in High Wycombe. It is too far to travel to Aylesbury if someone is in serious need of medical attention. Its part of our history of the town i was born in that hospital and id like generations to come to be born there to. People who do not have transport cant mess around with public transport going to hospital that is too far away.
Carina Harris, Downley

Because how strange it will be people moving to a town thats getting bigger to find it has no hospital an important building
Amerie Harold, Downley

Stoke Mandeville cannot cope with its current catchment and so to move everything from Wycombe to Stoke would be a diaster. Also the maternity unit is currently under so much pressure, has anybody thought about the outer lying villages and the distant pregnant Mothers would have to travel. What happens to their other sibblings when their Mother goes into labour. It is politics & the NHS gone mad.
Mrs Susan Hart, Wendover

“Having worked at A&E for a brief time I know what a valuable service this is and that this area cannot afford to lose it”.
B Harold

THE inconvenience of now having no choice but to travel miles away. Whatever happened to the “golden hour” rule’? This change is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable.
Gary Harding, High Wycombe

WITH approximately 68,000 people in the High Wycombe area, we need and deserve a general hospital in our town.
Mrs M Hartnell, Downley

Old couples depend on full hospital services within easy reach also for visits by equally aged spouses. Stoke Hospital is not.
HJL Hattford, Marlow

A TOWN the size of Wycombe should have its own facilities.
S Haven, High Wycombe

THE only reason for these health service reductions is for the Government to balance their books. Wycombe and the surrounding areas need more services – not less.
Mrs Ann Hawkins, Marlow

WYCOMBE has it all. The town is tipped as a top fashionable address for the future – but no complete hospital. Disgusting.
W Hayward, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE is a major town and needs to have a fully working hospital – it’s time that Blair and his cronies stopped punishing us in the South East and stopped the needless distress of us “Wycombers”! It’s disgusting.
Darren John Hayday, High Wycombe

WE NEED it here in High Wycombe. This is a major urban area and has motorways.
R Hattersley, High Wycombe

IT was helped by many people collecting donations over many years. It is our hospital – why should it be taken away?
Mrs E Hazell, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE is an expanding town near a major motorway junction. Only a fool would sanction a move.
Fran Hazeldine, Speen

WE need a hospital to fully serve us.
Mary Hazleton, High Wycombe

NOT to have a general hospital in a town like High Wycombe is an absolute crime.
W Heather, Downley

I was sent to Stoke, stayed in for a week, my poor wife is disabled and it was impossible for her to try and visit.
Leonard Heaton, High Wycombe

IT’S too far to travel. Lives will be lost when ambulances are not available.
B Hedgecock, High Wycombe

HIGH Wycombe is too big a place to have any reduction in health services.
Mary Heffernan, Flackwell Heath

WYCOMBE is bigger than Stoke Mandeville and hence its need is greater.
P R Herman, Penn

I HAVE had good treatment and if I had to have more it would not be easy for any visitor to go further out.
S Hetherington, Chesham

It services us well as a family so leave it alone. Wycombe needs it because of the amount of people living here.
Mr. Hickman, Flackwell Heath

HOSPITALS should be located nearby for emergencies. If not then lives are going to be lost. This is against human rights of access to healthcare.
Darlene Hibbard, Hazlemere

Common sense demands it be adjacent to the motorway and good public access.
GA Hill, Flackwell Heath

WITH a young family, living in a successful town like High Wycombe, I expect a multi-purpose hospital as standard.
Joseph Hill, Booker

Services need to be delivered locally - those most vulnerable and most at risk will suffer as a result of relocation of services. In emergency situations, time is of the essence. Being in hospital is stressful enough without making the experience even harder  - particularly so for old people, those with babies and small children and others who are vulnerable.
Sarah Hill, High Wycombe

WITH such a large town it is idiotic and stupid to have to travel so far after an accident or emergency, especially for maternity and child care. Sack whoever made this daft decision.
Mrs J Hobart, High Wycombe

TO PROVIDE a better service for the people of High Wycombe.
Miss S Hockley, High Wycombe

MY brother-in-law aged 83 endured hell being transported to Stoke Mandeville on November 1. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
Mrs D Hodges, High Wycombe

I AM 75 and I have heart problems.
C Hogben, High Wycombe

THE Wycombe district has a large population and requires a multi-purpose local hospital. We are not some small rural village, but a thriving district. We pay our taxes and deserve a hospital which can cater for our needs which is local.
It is unacceptable that we are expected to travel to Stoke Mandeville for major trauma care. How many lives will this cost in the long run?
Adela Hollingsworth, Marlow

We need a hospital. How can you expect a town the size of High Wycombe to exist without a full and proper working hospital.
Mrs Michelle Honour, High Wycombe

MY 91-year-old father needed treatment urgently at night. The night doctor was delayed and the ambulance wanted to take him from Marlow to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was shaking with pain by the time the doctor arrived 30 minutes later. It was quicker than the journey though.
M Houlihan, Marlow

TAKING patients already terribly shocked to Stoke Mandeville Hospital must cause even more stress and anxiety.
Mrs F Howe, Marlow

IT’S local and why should we be made to travel to Stoke Mand-eville, which has a bad reputation for hospital bugs.
So many people need Wycombe to remain the same.
I am about to have my second child and am furious that should something go wrong we may have to move so far away.
Look at the cost, the inconvenience and the fact that this is hardly a unit that is not needed.
Melanie Howell, Marlow

Stoke Mandeville is just too far away and the road connection is not good.  People from Wycombe want to be treated at a local hospital.
Jayne Humfryes, Marlow

WYCOMBE Hospital has always served our family well. A town of this size needs hospital services of its own.
Barbara and Geoff Hunt, 64 & 69, Flackwell Heath

High wycombe is too large a town to have so many departments moved away, particularly those which involve children. Moving sick people and children miles away could endanger treatment and lives.
Denise Hussain, High Wycombe

IT’S close to our home for an emergency.
Mustarer Hussain, High Wycombe

WE need a good local hospital having to travel miles for treatment is insane. I fear lives will be lost.
Judith Hutchings, Marlow

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I WANT my hospital back because of the close proximity. Everything under one roof, so to speak, for skilled specialists and proper essential equipment.
Mr Alan Illman, Hazlemere

LOCAL Tories have capitulated with New Labour (not majority of Labour voters) to vote away our emergency and maternity services.
Helen and Simon Ingram, Marlow

It is conveniently near home for all reasons.
Mr and Mrs A Ivermee, High Wycombe

Careless Management costs lives!
Jean Ivermee, High Wycombe

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IT is essential to have a comprehensive hospital as an essential service for a town the size of Wycombe. I just cannot understand the thinking of the people who have done this to us.
Mrs E Jack, Sands

THE distance between Wycombe and Aylesbury is ridiculous. An emergency service should be one which is as quick as possible.
V Jacobs, High Wycombe

I CONSIDER it to be a vital service that I am entitled to. Forget the politics and money.
Simon Jack, High Wycombe

WE need our hospital to stay and it’s madness to over-burden Stoke Mandeville. People’s medical needs are bound to suffer. Keep our hospital local.
Mrs S Jarrard, High Wycombe

SERIOUSLY ill patients having to sustain the long journey could prove fatal. A town of this size needs its own complete hospital.
Mr J Jarratt, High Wycombe

WE need services here. Will someone have to die before someone takes notice?
Mrs Jelly, High Wycombe

We all have the right to be treated in an emergency at our local hospital. Peoples lives are at risk having to travel.My daughter suffers from an nut allergy and I have always felt secure knowing the A&E department is close by.
Katarina Jemielity

It is a waste of resources to drive patients in an AMBULANCE to Stoke Manderville Hospital.
Sarah Jennings, Lane End

I HAD a relative in Wycombe Hospital’s 5B for three months, and it is easier to get to and the care was excellent.
Mrs Jewinson,Great Missenden

We want a fully operational hospital including a proper Accident & Emergency Unit. Save our baby unit.
R&S Johnson, Penn

WHY close our hospital services? There is no reason good enough for people not having a good local hospital. Come on Government – you’ve got it wrong this time. Rethink this stupid move.
Vicki Johnson,High Wycombe

Cost isn't the be all and end all of health care. Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury is just too far away.
Ray Johnson,Beaconsfield

People's lives are at risk here just because of money!  What is England turning into?!  I am a student nurse and utterly ashamed of these plans.  Action needs to be taken as soon as possible in my opinion.
Keely Jolliffe, Little Marlow

If we don't stop this centralisation madness the next thing we will find is that our nearest hospital has been centralised to Manchester.
Allan Jones, Bryants Bottom

Wycombe Hospital needs to retain all of its services,and not just part. Remember,we have one of the busiest motorways on our doorstep.Stoke Mandeville is just to far away for a major incident.
Michael Jones, High Wycombe

AN INCREASING town with a proposed decreasing hospital. This does not make sense.
Mr R Jones, High Wycombe

We cannot afford to lose a hospital that covers such a wide area.
Sheelagh Jones, High Wycombe

I can get to Wycombe General Hospital for appointments etc but am unable to visit Hospitals further afield due to driving ability
Mrs M Jongs , Speen

WHAT have they done with my donations?
J Jutla, High Wycombe

I’M not driving to Stoke Mandeville Hospital because I don’t have sat nav and it’s too far for me.
Tom Jutla, High Wycombe

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Only an idiot would send casualties 20-30 miles away, when there’s already perfectly good facilities nearby.
Steven Kadar , Lane End

I had my baby boy at Wycombe and was very impressed with all that was to offer and don’t fancy having to travel 45 minutes to have my next child, which I will have to do.
Karen, Wooburn Green

PEOPLE from the Wycombe area in Stoke Mandeville will have fewer visitors and feel isolated. This will not help their recovery. This change has not been done to improve patient care and services but to reduce costs and to improve Government figures.
A town the size of High Wycombe should have its own fully staffed hospital providing a complete range of services including a fully functioning casualty department.
Also, concerning the SCBU, shortly Wycombe people will have to travel to Aylesbury to make use of it, when the maternity department has been relocated.
Please put matrons back in charge of our hospitals. Well done to the Bucks Free Press for championing this important cause.
P Kasden, High Wycombe

WE need a local hospital for local people.
Anna Kay, Wooburn Green

THE journey to and from Stoke Mandeville Hospital made a stressful situation a lot more so. I can’t imagine having to do it daily.
Mrs Z Kearney, High Wycombe

YOUNG or old we all need a hospital we can get to quickly.
Mrs B Keeley, Marlow

IT’S because patient care is about people and not numbers.
Jill Kennedy, Marlow

STOKE Mandeville is about seven miles further from us. These few miles could be crucial in an emergency.
Mr J Kenward, Amersham

When I was 16 I had cancer.  If the hospital hadn't been there for me I wouldn't be alive today.
Lacey Kenworthy, Stokenchurch

Vital to have a maternity unit in Town. People will need to go to Aylesbury of Stoke Mandeville which is too far.
Kathyn Kerridge, Marlow

MY husband is partially sighted and Wycombe Hospital is the closest as he does not drive. Staff there are well known and liked.
Mr and Mrs Khan, Marlow

WYCOMBE is growing fast. It needs its hospital. It should not be moved away.
Mrs Kiefer, Hazlemere

WITH the amount of people in Bucks, how long will it be before Stoke Mandeville can't cope and waiting lists grow?
Carolyn King, Bourne End

Friend taken to High Wycombe A & E 12 noon 11th January and diagnosed with a cracked femur. Ambulance ordered by medical staff to take her to Stoke Mandeville at 1.30 pm and my friend was told by the Doctor not to have any liquid or food in case they needed to operate. The ambulance finally arrived to take her at 9 pm - seven and a half hours later. Medical staff continued to ring to see why the ambulance had not arrived but were told each time that it would be coming. This wait is unacceptable and must not be allowed to happen again.
Margaret King, High Wycombe

AS I am unable to drive, I am concerned how I would get to visit my family and friends if they were admitted.
Sheena King, High Wycombe

The town is growing, many more houses, many more people. General Hospital is essential, especially for those who do not wish to travel elsewhere.
Mr and Mrs D Kipping , High Wycombe

When I lived in Beaconsfield five years ago I had a heart attack and was saved by the speed I got to Wycombe.
June Kirby, Flackwell Heath

TWENTY miles to get to a hospital is just too far. This just seems commonsense.
There must be a better answer.
Philip Kirkley, Marlow Bottom

“I Would not survive another heart attack if I had to be transported to Stoke Mandeville. My wife is 76, and would not survive public transport.”
R Knapp, Marlow
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I WANT my hospital back because of access difficulties for visiting family members, especially those over 65. The road links are much worse to Stoke Mandeville and how is this delivering local care in the community?
M Sereda Knights, High Wycombe

I HAVE always been well looked after any time I have had need to use Wycombe Hospital.
Mrs D Knott, High Wycombe

THE SCBU at Wycombe is outstanding. Seventeen years ago they saved my youngest daughter’s life, born ten weeks early. This week they saved my first grandson. We need facilities nearby, not an hour away.
Mrs P Knowlden, Flackwell Heath

WYCOMBE is to undergo regeneration over the next two years. We need a good hospital and supporting services to compliment that.
Dinesh Kumar, High Wycombe

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Which would you rather do? It seems the council has chosen pennies.
Ben Lambourne, High Wycombe

Please save our hospital, High Wycombe is a growing town and we need an Accident and Emgergency Department and Childrens Ward, these are essential services and Stoke Mandeville is just too far away.
Deborah Lane, High Wycombe

“We need a local hospital which serves all the health needs of our High Wycombe community.  What will the next step be - shutting WGH and having all NHS services in Aylesbury?”
Elaine van Langenberg, Downley

WE need local hospitals to serve local communities.
Sageer Latif, High Wycombe

WHY expand and improve some parts of town and downgrade others? The BCUC is being expanded but hospital services are being reduced – it doesn’t make any sense.
Fred Lawrence, Wooburn Green

“We all pay our taxes and we have had the service for so long – why should we have to travel now?”
Mark Layman, High Wycombe

I DON’T want any mother losing their baby at birth as I might have done had I had to travel the distance to Stoke Mandeville.
Helen Ledik, Bourne End

WEXHAM and Stoke Mandeville have not made any radical improvements to absorb the problems of a far larger town like Wycombe. More DOAs?
J R Lee, Flackwell Heath.

I have had very poor treatment at both hospitals in the last few months, as no-one seems to know what the other is doing. They need to get their act together quickly before someone dies.
Paula Lee, High Wycombe

AS a local resident it is much too far to go to Stoke Mandeville, especially in an emergency situation.
Jane Lester, High Wycombe

OUR hospital services should be improving and not reducing considering all the extra money the government says it has provided for the NHS.
Hedley Lewis, High Wycombe

"It's too far to travel with young children without your own transport when attempting to visit a loved one."
Samantha Lewis, High Wycombe

EVENING service on buses is hourly – not nice to be sitting in the middle of nowhere waiting for bus.
HR Lewis, High Wycombe

WE don’t drive and the journey to Stoke Mandeville is not good by public transport.
J P Lewis, High Wycombe

I fear for the future.
Mr and Mrs Lidsay, Sands

WE need a proper hospital and not a dispersal centre.
Mrs I Lippert, High Wycombe

YET another Government promise broken to improve health care. This can only result in more deaths no matter how good our paramedics are.
Mr DA Lister, Downley

I have had an accident on the the road to Stoke Mandeville how long before an ambulance also has one. We live in a big town and need our own hospital not have to travel.
S. Lomas, Downley

Wycombe hospital serves a great many people (both patients and visitors)who do not have access to cars and rely on public transport. Stoke mandeville is a pig of a place to get too. Don't wait until there is a death to act.
Mrs Rachel Lovelock, Hazlemere

AT 83, with visits to see the cardiologist every few months, I do not wish to go to Stoke Mandeville in an emergency. It could be too far, too late.
Miss May Lovett , High Wycombe

WE need and deserve a full-functioning general hospital in High Wycombe. Many lives will be lost travelling to Stoke.
Mrs A Luckett, Marlow

High Wycombe and the surrounding towns and villages need a hospital nearby. One that is easily reached - not one that involves a trek through dark country lanes during a stressful time. Transport, accessibility and compassion for patients and their families is what these officials should be looking at- not cost effectiveness. Have they made the drive?
Mrs Linda Ludgate, High Wycombe

I am getting ever closer to retirement and I do not drive. I would like to think that as a long standing resident of Wycombe, I can continue to rely upon the high standard of care, both as an in and out patient in my local hospital.I don't wish to be treated like a burdensome package to be passed around the NHS/Country as beds and services become scarcer and travel becomes more difficult. I would like to see our NHS caring for ALL - that includes staff as well as patients. Lets have homes for essential workers, not high income/owner mansions built down here in the South and Hospitals that care for their local community not just settling a balance sheet.I and many others pay far too much in national insurance and council tax already, to have to put up with the way we Wycombe residents are being treated and cheated.
Dorothy Lumb, High Wycombe

I’M disgusted. How many will suffer?
T Lunn, High Wycombe

EVERY facility is available at our wonderful hospital and the public transport is also good.
Mrs B Lynch, Lane End

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The hospital is a vital service in the community. If my daughter becomes hospitalised the new plans mean I will have to travel to Stoke Mandeville, which is a good 20 minute drive, I am lucky I have a car if not I would have to rely on on very poor public transport.
Miss Kirsty MacDougall, High Wycombe

“Lets face it we have been lied to.We already have NO A&E here in Wycombe. SO Why the struggle to come out and be honest? In order for a fully functioning A&E department you have to have access to surgeons. Wycombe no longer does! You have to have access to gynaecologists, Wycombe will loose theirs in April 2006! you have to have access to Peadiatricians again Wycombe loose theirs in April 2006. So the promise that Wycombe would keep the A&E department was a lie. Perhaps the real plan is to knock the whole hospital down and build a shopping mall....lets at least hope it comes with parking facilities, not much comfort for the child being rushed all the way to Aylesbury with meninigitis!”
Margaret  Maher, High Wycombe

YOU are downsizing our hospital facilities yet our local population is increasing. Where is the logic?
Mr Major, High Wycombe

MADNESS! These delusions seem to be made by people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
M Mallard, Beaconsfield

WITH two young children and no car like many in this town we really need a good local hospital.
Mrs PK Manley-Leaett, High Wycombe

WE are a thriving busy town and we need a hospital here in our community.
Paul Marmion, Tylers Green

It is essential. For us to go to Stoke Manderville is beyond belief, this is 2005.
Janet Martin, Marlow

I AM a pensioner. I don’t drive. My family live hundreds of miles away.
I dread having to be hospitalised.
Mrs Brenda Matthews, High Wycombe

The hospital covers a vast and ever growing population. To close down this vital service would be a disater for the serving community.
Caroline Matthews, High Wycombe

Wycombe needs a hospital of its own. An hour's drive to get to Stoke Mandeville (sometimes longer) is not acceptable or even possible for some, for either patients or visitors.
Rebecca Mathews, Wooburn Green

PEOPLE need certain medical treatment which should not depend on money or any other factor.
Ms Matous, High Wycombe

The district is big enough to warrant it and with the new development happening in the town it will attract even more people. Could Stoke Mandeville cope?
Caroline Matthews, High Wycombe

MY granddaughter, aged three months, had to wait over two hours to see the doctor at Stoke Mandeville.
Suzanna McCormack, High Wycombe

STOKE Mandeville is totally inaccessible to a non-driver in Holmer Green, where as there is a regular bus service to Wycombe.
Joan McDonald, Holmer Green

“Wycombe hospital belongs to high wycombe residents. as a senior person I will have to travel on two buses from Marlow to get there.”
Margaret Mcgee, Marlow

For me personally, the movement of certain services our hospital provides, mean that my closest hospital providing such services may be as far as 30- 40 minutes away, if not longer in the rush hour. Starting this decline in service in Wycombe is worrying as eventually, perhaps not in the near forseeable future, but further down the line, the hospital may be closed altogether. Its easy to say now that it would never happen but when it does all you can make are excuses. Its a real shame to see this happening as I have been going to Wycombe hospital all my life and I even know of people who have travelled all the way from areas such as Slough just to be seen there as the service provided is seemingly better than that of our second nearest which is Wexham. Everybody I know is backing this campaign and want to keep Wycombe hospital the way it is, this includes giving us the baby unit back. Why does it seem that all our voices are being ignored? There seems to be very little sense in the motives behind these changes and it is as if the people of Bucks dont matter. Time and money have become too important and peoples best interests dont seem to come into it anymore. Its all very very sad really.
Sarah McClelland, Bourne End

EMERGENCY caesarean section was necessary for my daughter to be delivered safely.
Debbie Megson, Downley

BECAUSE anywhere else is just too far when you have children.
Mrs Mealing, Sands

WE are a large community and we need to have an adequate midwifery and A&E department on our doorstep. We have several fast main roads here and there are accidents to deal with.
M Meeks , High Wycombe

IT is absolutely necessary to a town this size and its close proximity to the M40 and M4.
The whole idea is a scandal.
Mrs J Mercett, High Wycombe

How can my wife or I get in a car at 3 am in the morning and drive nearly 20 miles in the rain, snow, wind or fog, exhausted and worried sick, with a child that is fighting for his life. This is not why we have a National Health Service… is it? Please keep Wycombe General a real hospital… lives depend on it!
Chris Merefield, Flackwell Heath

A GROWING Wycombe needs expansion of health services, not virtual annihilation.
Miss B Merrett, High Wycombe

I've lived in Beaconsfield almost all of my life and my family and I had many causes to use Wycombe Hospital. I can't think of anything worse than not having access to such a fundamental service. I had countless childhood accidents, my sister needed life-saving treament as a 3 year old, my father has had major surgery, and my 2 daughters daughters were born in Wycombe, as well as their 7 cousins. Surely they all deserve the same facilities. Truthfully we don't want 'choice' - we want to keep our good local hospital.
Rachel Merridew, Beaconsfield

THE roads from Wycombe to Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville are not at all suitable for carrying emergencies. The road already has enough problems without extra ambulances and concerned relatives dashing along it. This was a badly thought out plan.
Ruth Middleton, High Wycombe

Not only no Emergency surgery at Wycombe, all follow-up appointments will be at Stoke Mandeville. What a tragedy!
Lynda Miles, Flackwell Heath

Too far to Stoke Mandeville and reputation for MRSA.
Sally V Miller, Cadmore End

IT MUST stay here at Wycombe. Aylesbury is too far to travel.
H J Milne,Flackwell Heath

WHEN our loved ones, friends, and family are ill it is bad enough having the worry of them being ill.
BS Mintz and JL Mintz, Bourne End

LOCAL services for local people. Don’t let people die due to the long journey - which also causes shortages of ambulances.
T & M Mitchell, Marlow

THOUSANDS of people depend on Wycombe Hospital. My wife works there. Both my daughters have been born at maternity there. Every member of my family uses the hospital from time to time. I cannot imagine a town this size without a comprehensive hospital.
Naeem Mohammed, High Wycombe

We need what we had, bring back A&E and Maternity
Shakil Mohammed

TRAVELLING 30 miles a day to visit one’s wife at Stoke Mandeville Hospital when Wycombe could have performed the same operation is beyond me.
Mr L Monk, High Wycombe

In an emergency I may need good medical attention promptly.
Mrs T Moore, Penn

IT belongs to us in Wycombe. Our need is great.
Mrs Morfydd Burnard, High Wycombe

The roads to Stoke are too narrow for satisfactory use by ambulances.
J Morris, Downley

We need a whole hospital not a half of one. The money for a hospital was given to the Wycombe people.
S Morris, Downley

MY 101-year-old mother-in-law is in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Her elderly friends can’t visit her due to the distance. Her two very young great grandchildren can’t visit as they would be tired and irritable after a 40-minute drive. Bring back our hospital.
Ann Morter, High Wycombe

Having had 2 days in Wycombe Hospital I have witnessed patients being moved between hospitals and back again for treatment.Whilst I accept this may be necessary for certain treatments this cannot help the person who is being bumped around with recovery. Also the extra burden on the ambulance service both in cost and tying up man power. As High Wycombe is getting larger all the time it would complete madness not to have a fully operational hospital to cope with the size of town and expanding area.
Mr E Morton, Penn

Time is so important. The people of Wycombe deserve more.
DE Moyes, High Wycombe

THE Wycombe area needs a general hospital. Demotion means loss of expertise and damage to care of the significant disadvantaged population.
Mr B Mulady, Marlow

My name is Sophie Murray-Morris. I am 13 years old and I am student at Wycombe High School. I was born on August 7th, in Wycombe Hospital. I was supposed to be born on November 11th, therefore I was extremely premature. If it hadn't of been for the docters and nurses in the special care unit in Wycombe, I wouldn't be alive. Spare lives, bring the hospital back.
Sophie Victoria Murray-Morris, Tylers Green

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“It's stupid for a big town like High Wycombe not to have a fully working hospital, with a motorway, and nearest hospital in Stoke Mandeville”
James Nagle, Thame

IT belongs to the community of High Wycombe and should stay.
EW Neill, High Wycombe

WHEREVER you look in High Wycombe everything is being done to turn our town into a first class town (hopefully) and to bring more people in.
So why are the hospital authorities doing everything in their power to turn it into a second class town?
Patricia Newbury, Stokenchurch

TOO far away for real care.
Jason Newell, Marlow

I HAVE had my two children born at Wycombe Hospital and want to have the rest there too!
Simon Noakes, High Wycombe

IT is too far to travel along a very busy and dangerous road.
G and R North, Marlow

IT is unfair that we must go so far to receive treatment other counties
have on their doorstep.
Lequan Ngo, High Wycombe

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Isn't the idea of hospitals to save lives. To go to the nearest hospital will put another 30mins onto most peoples journeys - 30mins in life or death is a long time. Also with hospital waiting lists so long - should we not be opening more hospitals not closing them.
Dawn Oliver, Widmer End

Because it's too far to Stoke Mandeville. The distance may be acceptable on paper if it were one long straight road but its not - its effectively a twisty, turney country lane. Public transport there is negligible and this area is growing and needs an A&E dept as well as a proper Maternity Ward. It seems madness to move these services.
Karen Oliver, High Wycombe

For emergency cases, the long, time consuming journey form Marlow to Stoke Mandeville could often cause grave consequences. This is unthinkable.
J Orchard, Marlow

It was built for the people of Wycombe and surrounding areas.Maternity has gone A & E is going,How long before the Scanners go as well?
Ronald Orr, Loudwater

I LIVE in Hazlemere and have received excellent and fast treatment for my three daughters, both when born at Wycombe Hospital and when my youngest was rushed there with potential meningitis when she was six months old to receive emergency medication and care to cure her.
I dread to think what may have happened if the hospital was as far away in journey time as Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
On a less emotional level I am also a transport consultant by profession and feel that the im-pact of the relocation of medical services will add to congestion, causing environmental damage as well as further delays in getting parents to the hospital from the Wycombe district.
You only have to look at delays on the A404 in December last year on the A404 Marlow by-pass due to a few roadworks to understand the potential catastrophes that will occur sooner or later.
I would like to see the studies that have been done to assess the above travel issues, if indeed any have been undertaken.
James Overend, Hazlemere

IT’S vital to us all to have the services our hospital provides. Lives could and will be lost.
Miss V. O’Toole, High Wycombe

How long before someone dies travelling to Stoke? How can 100,000 people be told they must travel to the next town for hospital care, child birth and A&E? Lunacy of the highest order.
Martin Oswald, High Wycombe

Wycomber and surrounding areas have such a high density of population they must have one multi-purpose central hospital.
A R Overton, Prestwood

The hospital is for the patients, not politicians or accountants. High Wycombe is growing so it does not make sense to cut down on health facilites.
Kirsten Overton, Prestwood

IT is way too far to go to StokeMandeville when there is an emergency. They are risking lives.
Mrs T Oxbrow, High Wycombe

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In a critcal situation every second counts. There are a lot of seconds between Wycombe hospital and any alternative.
Dale Page, High Wycombe

People will die needlessly
Elizabeth Page, High Wycombe

I LIVE too far away from Aylesbury to receive immediate treatment in an emergency. Why should I not have this privilege?
Susie Page, Great Kingshill

IT is too far to travel to either Stoke Mandeville or Aylesbury. My husband cannot drive. More houses are being built here, therefore more need for services.
Eileen Paine, Bourne End

HOW loud do we have to shout, before anyone listens! Wycombe and surrounding areas are not shrinking! We need our hospital.
Pat Palmer, High Wycombe

This is rediculous, travelling approximatly thrirty minutes to Aylesbury for care that all newborns and indeed the mothers should be entitled to recieving in their home town! Although I agree that the shopping facilities need improving in Wycombe, surely the money could be put to better use by keeping the special care baby unit! Improvements being made in Wycombe? I think not.
Katherine Palmer, Hazlemere

“I do not drive, how am I meant to visit loved ones in Stoke Mandeville with present public transport services? We spent years of fundraising for Wycombe General Hospital only to lose facilities as we approach old age. Deplorable. I wager those who made the decision to relocate all have cars and drive.”
Mrs Gillian Palin, Downley

TRAVELLING to Stoke Mandeville is too far for patients and visitors from Marlow, Beaconsfield, High Wycombe areas.
Mrs JM Panchen, Beaconsfield

WE cannot travel all the way to Stoke Mandeville.
Mrs K Parker, Flackwell Heath

HIGH Wycombe needs a full A&E service. It covers several junctions of the M40 and is a major crossroads of the A40 and routes to Marlow, Amersham and Aylesbury.
The local population also require a full service. How many unnecessary deaths and serious injuries will it require before commonsense prevails?
Nick Parry, High Wycombe

1. High Wycombe is large enough to have a fully functioning Hospital.
2. Older people without personal transport find it difficult to get to Aylesbury.
3. Visitors to patients having to travel long distances using extra petrol and time . This is a bad thing.It also prolongs emergency travel,which is dangerous.
Olga Parry,Hughenden Valley

“It is our local amenity which we have paid for and should have the right to retain.”
Ashwin Patel

WYCOMBE Hospital is needed and my council tax pays for the one we had, not the one we have been left with.
S Paul, High Wycombe

I HAVE two small children and we all need a full hospital service in a large town and district such as High Wycombe. Don’t cut services – save lives.
Ruth Peapell, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE’s SCBU has been described as one of the best.
Richard Pearce, High Wycombe

High Wycombe needs more than ever now its own hospital owing to the large increase in population.
DP Pearce, Marlow

Lives will be lost !!!.The nameless people that decide on these cuts should be charged with manslaughter in the predictable,forseeable future.
Graham Pearce, Stokenchurch

How can a town of this size (and one that is growing) not have these vital services? How many people have to lose their lives before someone wakes up and realises the impact this will have?
Melanie Pearce, High Wycombe

I am very angry that many of the hospital services will be moved to other locations away from the heart of Buckinghamshire, namely High Wycombe. People will inevitably die as a result of an additional 16-18 miles of travel to hospital in an emergency!
Barry H. Pember, High Wycombe

I HAD a hysterectomy after my mum’s death. Without support of family, friends and staff, it would have been awful. Please, please do not tear us up by our roots.
Jennifer Pemberton, Marlow

IN 2005 my daughter had two ectopic pregnancies. Travelling any more distance to Stoke Mandeville could have proved fatal for her. Please, please keep our hospital services fully open in High Wycombe to benefit us all for the future.
Diane Peppett, Marlow Bottomv

Why don’t the powers in charge listen to the people who use these services?
Sylvia Peterson, High Wycombe

“I know from experience how horrendous the journey to Stoke Mandeville A&E is when someone has been taken seriously ill, and how tiring and time consuming it is, even with a car, to visit regularly during their subsequent recovery.  Wycombe and its surrounding area needs its own, fully functioning, hospital.”
Sara Perry, High Wycombe

THE move is causing distress and chaos among older patients. Stoke Mandeville is much too far.
EJ Perfect, High Wycombe

Wycombe is a town which is growing and a few years down the line. It might come clear what a massive error it was to move services out of Wycombe General to other hospitals in the trust.
Robert Perkins, High Wycombe

A town of Wycombe's size needs the facilities. The drive to Stoke Mandevilee is on a notoriously dangerous road.
Doug Peters, High Wycombe

"I believe that the growth of population in High Wycombe and  it's surrounding area's deserve to continue with the high quality service that was once provided. Splitting the services increases patient travel times which inturn increases polution and congestion on the already very busy roads in Bucks”
Bernard Phillip White, High Wycombe

HOSPITAL is very much needed within the area especially for the young and elderly.
W Philpott, Tylers Green

DUE to Wycombe Hospital both my children survived birth.
A Piekiewick, High Wycombe

THE town is being taken away from us and is slowly dying off, so now they want to kill us off quicker by taking our hospital too.
R Piercey, Booker  

“My family lives in the Radange area, how long if they need emergency help will it take the amubulance to get to the hospital.”
Sarah-Jane Pilbeam, Senglea, Malta.

Why should local people have to travel so far to get urgent treatment. It also adds to extra traffic and pollution.
L Pinner, Flackwell Heath

People who don't own cars (particularly the older generation) will have to get in a taxi and travel 15 miles in pure agony and pain.
Sarah-Jane Pitts, High Wycombe

USE the money to clean up, and why should we travel to Aylesbury? Our council tax is paid to Wycombe.
L P Platten, High Wycombe

EVERYWHERE else is far too far to travel.
E Plumridge, Radnage

WYCOMBE needs all the facilities it can get.
Melanie Plested, Flackwell Heath

THE transferring of patients will cause unnecessary suffering to injured parties and their families.
Kath Plumridge, Downley

I can not understand why it is that we have to fight so hard for services we WANT like a hospital which will keep us alive when we are having an emergency or will make it possible to visit and stay with someone who needs us...and we still have those who need us a bus journey away... Stoke Mandeville is a long way.Perhaps I don't drive...perhaps I am old..I am a mother..have other dependants... What does my opinion count ? The views of the opponents to this relocation have been disregarded and, I have to say, patronised. ..and the A4014 is not a road I should want for my journey to birth or trauma care.
Christine Podesta,West Wycombe

I am so FILLED with anger! People will DIE and if the clearly thick Wycombe council or whoever has made this decision can't see that then they are dimmer than I originally believed. Come on look at this site at how many people have written in saying how unhappy they are, Wycombe is growing not getting smaller!
Emily Porter, High Wycombe

MY brother-in-law would not have been alive after his heart attack if help had not been just three minutes away. He would not have made it to Stoke Mandeville.
E Porter, High Wycombe

TOO much money has been raised towards High Wycombe Hospital. I had my son at Wycombe and would not have travelled to Stoke Mandeville.
Lucy Posey, Piddington

SADLY the bosses have decided to move our services to Stoke Mandeville. They don’t seem to care about the people of Wycombe and won’t change their minds.
Eileen Potter, High Wycombe

A TOWN the size of High Wycombe needs to retain its own hospital. Moving departments to Stoke Mandeville will be very hard for people to visit. For some elderly people without transport it will be impossible.
Mrs P Priestley, High Wycombe

THE people need it but I wonder whether the elderly, alone or caring for another, would call an ambulance knowing the circumstances.
K Pritchard, High Wycombe

WE need all services.
Bryonie Pritchards, High Wycombe

THERE are no decent main roads from Wycombe to Aylesbury and so ambulance runs will be dangerous and lengthy.
D Puleston, High Wycombe

WITHOUT Wycombe Hospital having a comprehensive service, the medical needs of High Wycombe will be forced onto Aylesbury’s hospital 15 miles away. It will seriously compromise our medical needs.
Mr M Puleston, High Wycombe

LIVING in Beaconsfield means in an urgent situation we can get to A&E in 10 or 15 minutes. Aylesbury is many miles away.
Mae Purcen, Beaconsfield

I'm rather concerned that should anyone be involved in a serious accident eg;M40 B'field/Wycombe area, if seriously injured would you still be alive by the time you've reached the emergency ward - or perhaps that's what the governemnt want - to reduce NHS costs!!!! (death being cheaper than having to provide a bed, care and medicines).I also wouldn't want to have a short labour and need to get to the maternity ward with so far to travel. Surely the HW area is big enough to warrant a decent hospital with A&E and Maternity facilities etc, that's why it's there already - and obviously the population increase since it was built justifies these services being kept here. Have the government gone completely mad? Would Tony Blair and other politicians supporting this ridiculous proposal like to be so far away from a hospital should they or their families need it?
Mrs Dawn Purnell, Knotty Green

Apart from the units already moving do people realise some Consultant appointments are also being transferred to Stoke Mandeville.
Ken Pusey, High Wycombe.

Wycombe with it"s population increasing should have it"s own full hospital facilities.Can Stoke Mandeville cope with the increased workload?
Pamela Pusey

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We need it and we want it. Aylesbury is too far away to visit for non-drivers.
Mrs Rarity , Marlow

Whoever decided to move most things like A&E and the Baby Unit needed their head examined. Why?
Mrs P Rachea, Hampshire

HAND back our hospital because me and my partner have a baby girl who suffers from breathing problems and we rely on Ward Seven childrens’ ward and A&E when she has to be rushed in if she stops breathing at any time. Stoke Mandeville is too far for us to go to as we have four other children to think of. We would urge that the hospital really thinks about what they are doing as it is putting my daughter’s life at risk and others by doing this
Paul Radbourne, Marlow

Me and my partner have a baby girl who suffers from breathing problems and we rely on ward7 childrens ward and A&E. When she has to be rushed in if she stops breathing at any time stoke mandaville is too far for us to go to as we have four other children to think of. We have a perm open door for her on ward 7 and would urge that the hospital really thinks about what they are doing as in putting my daughters life at risk and others by doing this.
Samantha Radbourne, Marlow

The county is too rural and wide spread to cut it down to just one hospital. It takes almost three quarters of an hour to get from Wycombe to Aylesbury by car, public transport is ridiculously long!
Flic Read, Chesham

PUBLIC health requires a good local service.
A Redding, High Wycombe

I HAVE used Wycombe Hospital and it’s a wonderful place and can be the difference between life and death.
Helen Reed, High Wycombe

“StokeMandeville is just too far away for people who do not have a car or anyone available to drive them there. I recently had to drive up from Dorset to take my daughter to an appointment after an accident at work. There is no public transport direct from many areas of Bucks to Aylesbury or Stoke Mandeville. If I had needed to go to Aylesbury when my daughter was born, she would have been born in the car as we would not have been able to get that far on time!!!!”
J.Reeve, Marlow

I’M disabled with spinal problems. The journey in an ambulance does more harm than good because they rattle. Wycombe is five minutes away.
D Reeves, High Wycombe

IN an emergency, time is on the essence. I feel going so much further could lead to a life and death situation. The convenience is also important when it comes to visiting.
Mrs B Reid, Hazlemere

WYCOMBE has a good reputation and Stoke Mandeville is too far away.
Sarah Reid, Loudwater

STOKE Mandeville Hospital will be very difficult to get to by public transport from Chalfont St Peter.
Mrs Z Reid, Chalfont St Peter

“It must be putting pressure on the resources at Stoke Mandeville – which covers a vast enough area as it is.
“As for planned operations – I have been waiting for five months to have an operation at Wycombe Hospital to treat my carpal tunnel syndrome on both wrists.”
Gloria Reynolds, High Wycombe

It is near my home and I feel safe when I know there is someone near to help me and my family
Mohammed Riaz, High Wycombe

MY husband and I are both in our 70s, my husband is also dis-abled, through MRSA.The traffic to Stoke Mandeville is very heavy. Public transport is not an option for my husband.
Mrs A Ridgley, Hazlemere

Wycombe and Stoke hospitals are wonderful so we want both to be complete.
Mr Ridgley, High Wycombe

SERVICES should be provided at a patient’s local hospital, for the benefit of both patients and relatives.
S Riley, 45, High Wycombe

MY granddaughter was treated at Wycombe Hospital with leukaemia. It would have been a great deal more difficult to travel back and forth to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The staff at Wycombe were wonderful at all times.
Mrs E Riley, Little Kingshill

THIS could put lives at risk.
Brenda Roberts , Downley

THIS is a major growing town which needs all services locally or people will die.
Diane Roberts, Hazelmere

KEEP it local.
Mary Roberts, Hazlemere

THIS is a major town which is still growing and needs all the services to stay local, otherwise people will die.
Diane Roberts, Hazlemere

STOKE Mandeville is much too far to have to go especially now I am getting older.
Mrs Ann Robinson, Widmer End

It is just so silly to have to travel that far, when you are short of money and have to rely on public transport etc. Our hospital is a wonderful clean one, far cleaner than Stoke Mandeville. With all the people who live in and around Wycombe it's just ridiculous. It wouldn't be so bad if there was an improvement in the A & E, but the wait there is so long you have to travel back 2 days running (as we did in our case a few weeks ago)
Gail Patricia Robinson, High Wycombe

I HAVE a grandchild who is frequently admitted to the children's ward on an emergency basis.
Mrs J F Rogers, High Wycombe

THE locality needs it. This hospital serves a huge area and its reduction will be acutely felt by many.
Mrs E Rolfe, High Wycombe

At Stoke Mandeville a friend of mine waited 6 hours for an ambulance to return to Marlow because of people queuing for transport.
Mrs G Roe, Marlow

We feel that Wycombe that the residents of Wycombe have the same rights to A&E services as people in all other towns.
Pensioners would find it difficult to travel to Stoke Mandeville. The additional time to transfer from Wycombe to Stoke Mandeville could be crucial in saving the life of a trauma victim.
Mr & Mrs A Rogers, High Wycombe

I CANNOT remember a time when Wycombe did not have its own hospital.
Why change things now?
Mrs M Rolt, High Wycombe.

IT’S too far to travel in an emergency. Also visiting would be difficult in the evening as we have no bus service.
L Rose, Wooburn Green

WYCOMBE and the surrounding districts need a local hospital.
Mr S Rose, Wooburn Green

IT’S ridiculous. We have to be taken 20 miles to a hospital for an accident when we have a good hospital up the road.
Mrs Ross, Marlow

It's too far to go to the nearest hospital. What if one of my children had an emergancy? The distance is too much.
Mikala Rouse, High Wycombe

TODAY my grandson, 14, was admitted to Stoke Mandeville after a long wait, which makes visiting from Amersham very difficult.
Mrs D Rusin, Holmer Green

IT was originally fuelled by local subscriptions after World War I. It is imperative that all services are retained for local people.
Mrs D Russell, High Wycombe

I HAVE received excellent treatment by ambulance, A&E and cardiac wards when suffering heart problems on five occasions.
Tony Rutland, Amersham

They want to take our hospital amenities away with not much industry left in Wycombe people find it hard enough to find work, let alone time and money to vist their sick relatives miles away.
Mrs Valerie Ryder, High Wycombe

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LookIi dont think yeah we should let them do this!!if we all stand together we will be able to do something and stop this from happening!!!SO COME ON PEOPLE!"
Samirah, Student

REDUCED services at the hospital would be a great loss for Wycombe.
It is needed for all every day.
Kirundeep Sandhu, Buckinghamshire and Chilterns
University College administrator

WE need it.
K Sandhil, High Wycombe

IT’S a vital local facility for a town the size of High Wycombe. The rebuild of the town centre shops is a nonsense compared to a fully-functioning hospital.
John and Gill Sandeman, Frieth.

WYCOMBE district has a population of 164,000. There will be unnecessary deaths and suffering if our hospital is not fully restored.
John and Gill Sandleman , Frieth

The nearest hospital should be used for the sick needing care.
T Saunders, Stockenchurch

The road is not suitable for all the extra use by emergency vehicles, they will be tied up longer in use so more will be needed. The return trip will cost more like £50 by taxi. Sick people need care not problems.
M Saunders, Stockenchurch

I LIVED along the Bradenham road for 65 years. That road is too dangerous for hospital traffic. The bridge is very dangerous.
E Saunders, High Wycombe

THE vital resources we have are being drained from an already small town.
Sobi Sarwar, High Wycombe

These services are vital, essential to the town and should be sustained. We pay our taxes and are entitled to the services, locally, as of right.
Paul Scholtke, High Wycombe

Other local hospitals are a minimum of 15 miles away with access to them mostly on country roads all taking time that, when people are extemely ill and need the immediate treatment which only a hospital can provide, may be the difference between living and dying. We also have the M40 on our doorstep which increases the possiblity of accidents many of the major how and where are these cases going to be transferred to arrive within the critical time after such an accident?
Mary Scott, Downley

WYCOMBE is a big town and we need our hospital.
S Scott, Great Kingshill

Everybody deserves the services provided by a general hospital in a town as big as High Wycombe!
Jan Scutchings, Wooburn Green

MY daughter would have died going to Stoke Mandeville when she had to be born by emergency C-section.
Daniel Seaman, High Wycombe

The hospital is funded by the NHS Trust, which is paid for by the tax payers, so the hospital belongs to me and all those who pay their taxes and as the petition shows, no one wants these changes to our hospital and the people who are making the decisions should listen to us and do what we want, NOT what they want.
Daniel Seaman, High Wycombe

It is false economy to change something that is working entirely well for the whole community.
Brian Sharp , Wooburn Green

WHY should we have to travel to Stoke Mandeville when there is a fully equipped and recently rebuilt hospital in High Wycombe?
H Shaw, Bourne End

A TOWN the size of High Wycombe needs its own hospital. Someone is going to die with a delay going to Stoke Mandeville.
S. Sheedy, Downley

WYCOMBE is a community in its own right and should have complete hospital facilities available here and not 15 miles away.
M Sherwood, Downley

A town the size of Wycombe needs full hospital services, we are growing, not shrinking. The plans are outrageous.
Mrs Sue Simpson , Flackwell Heath

WE need to have somewhere to go when we are sick.
K Singn, medical student

HIGH Wycombe is a large town and needs a hospital close by and not miles away.
Lisa Skinner, Medmenham

IT seems absolute madness to consider downgrading Wycombe Hospital in any way, especially the A&E Department.
Mike Slack, High Wycombe

My daughter has suffered from a bowel complaint since she was twelve, which has now developed into a serious liver problem,she has been treated at the hospital for a number of years and has been treated in accident and emergency on many occasions if we had to travel to Stoke Mandaville this would make her journey in pain and distress. Our local taxes are rising what are we paying for?
Beverley Slocombe, High Wycombe

“The town deserves to have a decent hospital. This town has enough money – it’s not like some other towns in this country.
“Everyone at the hospital is pretty annoyed,”
Peter Small, Totteridge

You cannot put a price on health. For efficient and caring treatment this must be as near as possible to the home of the person in need - their LOCAL hospital - THAT WAS GIVEN BY A LOCAL PERSON many years ago.
Anthony James Smith, Downley

IT makes no sense to deprive a growing hospital – this is truly a matter of life or death.
Ian Smith, Hazlemere

The move will mean lack of peace of mind for people of my age who no longer drive.
Joy Smith , High Wycombe

HIGH Wycombe is a large, still growing town with what can sometimes be a volatile community. It is essential that we have adequate health care facilities and preposterous that these are being taken away. A 40-minute drive to Stoke Mandeville Hospital could make the difference between life and death.
Mrs Karen Smith, High Wycombe

THIS town and district needs a broadly based hospital to serve a growing population. Fourteen miles is too far to travel for treatment.
Mr RH Smith, High Wycombe

I FAIL to see how anything else can be more important to a town than a hospital.
Mr & Mrs Smith, High Wycombe

STOKE Mandeville is just too far to travel especially for emergencies.
Tracey Smith, Prestwood

It’s essential to retain it where it is. My wife was given life saving DVT treatment last year and when my son was born two months premature earlier this year, the quality of care given at the special care unit was second to none. On both these occasions, I was able to get my wife to hospital in less than 5 minutes. If I had to rush to Aylesbury on both these occasions, the outcome may have been very different.
Anthony Snyman

Wycombe needs good healthcare services. I have had to use A&E on several occasions through asthma attacks and kidney stones. To have to drive an extra 30 to 40 minutes when so ill would be horrendous. I also remember when A&E in Amersham closed. We were all told that it would be fine because Wycombe would still be there, as an upgraded facility covering both areas. Tony Blair will of course be happy for the hospital closest to Chequers to get all the services - looking after himself again......
G Southgate, High Wycombe

THE Wycombe area needs all facilities central to High Wycombe, not 15 to 20 miles away.
Ian Southworth, Stokenchurch

I have 4 children all born at Wycombe Hospital. The last 2 births were very quick. My son was born within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital. I would never have made it to Stoke Mandeville. Wycombe district is a large area with a large population and very many children. Why on earth move childrens and maternity services so far away? I could understand if we were a rural area, where traffic jams, gridlocks etc.. are a rarity. But sometimes the whole area can become nightmarish at certain times. Surely moving all these services miles away is asking for trouble? There will be many incidents of tragic cases occuring due to the extra amount of time it will take people to get help or treatment.
Mrs Viviane Spicer, Marlow

IT will be impossible to treat and care for the deserving community of the High Wycombe area. And we all want to feel safe!
B Spurgeon, Flackwell Heath

The Golden Hour is the most important time in life saving, we have now lost half of this trailing to Aylesbury.
Mr B Stacey, High Wycombe

I WAS knocked unconscious near the church in the centre of Wycombe on a summer’s afternoon and was taken to Wycombe Hospital where my family were able to visit me very easily as it is our local hospital.
Mrs E Starling, High Wycombe

IT seems as if the money god has come before human life once again.
Mr Statham, High Wycombe

I WOULD like my hospital back because of its services, locality and friendly personal care at all times.
Mrs S Stevens, High Wycombe

There is every chance that either my son or I would not be here now if I had had to spend critical time getting to Stoke Mandeville hospital at the time of his birth. Thank goodness the excellent maternity unit was available at High Wycombe - please keep it there!
Wendy Stevenson Bunney, Bourne End

IT is the right of the local people to have our hospital the way it was.
D Steptoe, High Wycombe

MY husband went into Wycombe Hospital time and time again with fluid on his lungs. It affected his breathing and he had a diabetic coma. If he had to go to Stoke Mandeville the first time he would have died, but Wycombe gave us more time with him – so please give us back our hospital.
Mrs D Stevens, Downley

Locals need a local hospital. Not everyone has cars or can get on a bus. How many dead people do they want to arrive at Stoke Mandeville Hospital?
Tracy Stevens, Rickmansworth

I THINK the move is disgusting. As a mother and a pediatric nurse it worries me a lot. There are too many people in High Wycombe not to have a fully working hospital.
A Stevenson, High Wycombe

We need these facility's and a hospital as we are a large town. If any problem occourred in the town and there are a lot of casualitie's. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO!!?
Sophie Stockley, High Wycombe

I HAVE to attend Wycombe Hospital quite regularly. How am I going to get to Stoke Mandeville?
Mrs P Stokes, High Wycombe

I WAS in Stoke Mandeville for Christmas and my family had to come all that way over the Christmas period when there is a good hospital on our doorstep. Absolute madness by someone.
M Strawa, 84, Beaconsfield

 IT is appalling that the area with such a high population, com-muting traffic, and public places for entertainment, loses an essential part of the local health service, which we all depend upon in times of suffering.
Aubrey Sturgeon, Bourne End

“I think that it is disgraceful that a town our size and the area that it covers should have to ship our trauma patients to Stoke Manderville Hospital.  We need to keep ALL hospital facilities at Wycombe.”
Diane Styles, Rosemarie Styles, High Wycombe

WE need it!
C Sunderland and A Sunderland, Hazlemere

A town the size of Wycombe, with its surrounding area, needs a local hospital with full services available.
Rachel Sutcliffe , Tylers Green

MY son aged 18 had meningitis with septicaemia a few years ago and he would have died if he could not have been admitted to Wycombe Hospital.
Pauline Sutherland, Flackwell Heath

YOU are taking away our right to have emergency and maternity services in our local hospital. People will suffer and possibly die.
Mrs D Sutton, High Wycombe

“We need to keep these specialist services much closer to hand than Aylesbury which is too far for the majority of emergency cases to be taken from the Wycombe catchment area”
Vicki Swaine, Bledlow Ridge

WHY should we pay for a service that is 20 miles away.
Anne Swanborough, High Wycombe

I am worried that my grandma might die as a result of the wycombe A & E closure. She lives in the middle between Wycombe and Wexham hospitals and if she is in need and dials 999 she would normally of get an ambulance from High Wycombe to take her to High Wycombe from Chalfont St. Peter. If she is in danger and needs emergancy care and needs an abulance, it would take about about an hour to get from Chalfont to Aylesbury especially in rush hour times!
Lloyd Sweet, Terriers

IT is unimaginable that so many tax payers should be denied their basic rights.
J. Sweeting, High Wycombe

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OVER the years the public have raised money for the Scannappeal and special care baby unit. We need a hospital in OUR town not miles away. What are we paying community charges for?
Mrs S Tair, Flackwell Heath.

WHOEVER thought of such a ridiculous idea? We need our hospital. So many lives will be lost. Don’t risk it.
Dionne Tackley, High Wycombe

THE people of Wycombe built, funded and cared for their hospital for generations because they saw a need near home.
N Talbot, High Wycombe

High Wycombe is a large town and we need a hospital here. It is very distressing to think that we would have to go to Aylesbury with health problems and why are they moving the Children's ward and maternity and baby care there?
WE NEED THESE IN HIGH WYCOMBE!!I am TOTALLY AGAINST THIS! IT'S THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I HAVE EVER HEARD!!
Saheeda Talib, High Wycombe

THE journey to and from Stoke Mandeville will add stress to an already stressful situation. Think again.
Mr P R Tavender, High Wycombe

“Because to travel to Aylesbury will put peoples lifes in danger not only because of the first golden hour after an accident but also relatives travelling further under a great deal of stress. The changes will also displace an impact factor onto the other emergency services, ambulances travelling further and police officers spending hours out of area dealing with victims of crime & injured parties of road traffic accidents, what will happen to our crime rate ?”
E Taylor,Downley

WITH all the new houses being built in this district, it is absolute lunacy to reduce our hospital facilities. We have all supported many years of Scannappeal because it was our hospital. Why should we do it now?
J Taylor, Flackwell Heath

LIKE lots of others I want to be treated quickly and not travel too far away.
S Theaker, Flackwell Heath

OUR growing town needs full hospital coverage – 15 miles is not acceptable!
C Thomas, High Wycombe

ACCESS to Stoke Mandeville is not suitable for the volume of traffic from the High Wycombe area. The journey time is too inconvenient for parents and visitors.
H Thomas, Flackwell Heath

WE really need this hospital and shouldn’t have to travel to another town.
Mrs A Thomas, High Wycombe

MY husband has just died on Thursday and this was very distressing to go into Aylesbury.
I have also been transferred to Aylesbury and found this very distressing.
Joyce Thomas, Flackwell Heath

It might just make sense if there were to be an air ambulance for transfers from Wycombe to Stoke Mandeville but it is virtually certain that the difficult road journey from Marlow will result in unnecessary loss of life due to the delay in urgent treatment involved.
Duncan Thomas, Marlow

LOCAL people provided expensive equipment over the years. Maternity and children’s wards should stay. Stoke Mandeville is too far away.
Miss D Thompson, Hazlemere

The Hospital is a community resource, not a business unit. We pay for health services through taxation, and residents' needs and wishes should be paramount in decisions. It is a disgrace that the NHS is no longer democratically-accountable. The slogan "No taxation without representation" was coined many years ago, in another context. It ought to apply to the NHS - the Primary Care Trusts need to be brought back into local democratic control, as the NHS WAS until the Thatcher and Major Conservative Governments stripped democracy out. Eight years of Labour Government have done nothing to change the situation.
Neil Timberlake, West Wycombe

Wycombe is growing and needs all it’s facilities. They were wonderful when my husband had a heart attack.
Carole Tinworth, Downley

A large town without facilities to treat road accidents etc, nearest hospital 20 miles way is ridiculous. Air ambulance would be needed cintinually?
Mr and Mrs Tippins, Hillingdon

Wycombe’s priority is supporting our hospital, before re-designing our roads and buildings.Does reducing health services mean reducing council tax?
Mike Tomich, High Wycombe

I am elderly, my visitors would find it too much travelling. I would be isolated and lonely. Keep our services local.
Mrs Towne, Lane End

THE Sunday before Christmas my husband was admitted with a stroke to Wycombe Hospital and the treatment and kindness from staff, from ambulance staff to wards 1B and 5B, were excellent.
Mrs P Tranter, High Wycombe

IT is madness to transfer these vital services from a large and growing area like High Wycombe. It could cost lives.
Mrs Grace Turner, Booker Common

I OBJECT to this town spending millions on a shopping centre no one wants, but can’t maintain a very fine hospital.
K Tranter, High Wycombe

I believe in a health service accessible to all. What sense does it make moving a viable childrens & maternity ward to another part of the county. All it achieves is distress and difficulty for Wycombe. people. I believe the decision makers have made inept, expedient decisions based on little more than 'a pin in the map'There is no justification for this.
In my experience decisions made in this way are never properly thought out and often have other 'interests' involved. I have nursed at both hospitals and fail to see the relevance of this bizarre decision making process. I do not live in Wycombe now but my family do and I see the difficulties it will bring to them with 3 young children.
My niece was born prematurely in January and spent 4 months in SCBU. How would they have managed if their child was moved to Stoke Mandeville? This is an appalling blow for High Wycome and it is shameful on those who made the decisions.
Sue Tribe, Sherwood

WHY should the public of High Wycombe/Aylesbury areas be subjected to total inconvenience by bureacracy. Improve but leave our multi-functional hospitals alone. It’s disgraceful.
R E Tripp, Lacey Green

STOKE Mandeville is too far to go for treatment. Public transport is not adequate. People should not drive when unwell and not everyone has a car.
Mrs E Troke, Bourne End

With the Wycombe’s area population it’s essential to have a hospital covering all services.
P C Trunkfield, Downley

Wycombe Hospital belongs to the people of High Wycombe. Stoke Mandeville is too far away and not easy to get to for those who don't have their own transport.
Jayne Turner, Stokechurch

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A TOWN the size of Wycombe needs its own hospital. The road to Stoke is not good enough to take extra traffic.
Mrs AM Upshall, Downley

EMERGENCY services should be close to main centres of population. This is Government policy.
Mr Upshall, High Wycombe

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“The Wycombe-Aylesbury road is unfit for everyday emergency use - accidents and unnecessary deaths are just waiting to happen”
Lindy van den Berghe, Marlow

Going to Aylesbury will make waiting time longer and treatments delayed.Also will severely overtax Aylesbury hospital services
Wanda Van-der-Zyden, High Wycombe

WYCOMBE Hospital is easy access for most people and very important for pregnant women.
N Vaisiliou, Hazlemere

I HAVE had my three sons in Wycombe. Over the years we have visited the hospital lots of times. It was fully functioning. I am worried for my granddaughter and grandsons if we lose our fully functional hospital.
Miss Vaughan, Booker

WE need our own fully staffed hospital providing a complete range of services including a fully functioning casualty department.
Miss J Vaughan, Booker

I AM disabled with an electric wheelchair and my wife has had two major operations in five years.
We have got to phone Dial-a-Ride and it costs.
Charles Venn, High Wycombe

IT’S just not safe driving to Stoke Mandeville along that narrow, winding and busy country road in an emergency.
Rosemary Vere, High Wycombe

ELDERLY people and small children should be cared for as near to their homes as possible – especially in emergencies.
Frances Vickers, Beaconsfield.

WE need full facilities. Stoke Mandeville is a long way. Apart from patients, consider visitors.
Gwyneth Vigor, Amersham

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Distance from Marlow, and time/bus changes also fares that pensioners pay.
In winter time when weather is very bad and roads icy travelleing for ambulances could take longer.
If there are a number of ambulances on the road between Stoke Mandevile and high wycombe where are the "back up "ambulances?
D. Wain, Marlow

The Eden project will be a wasted effort unless we have our decent general hospital at the heart of the area.
Jane Wall, Loudwater

I DON’T want to have to travel that far if I have an accident.
Jamie Walsh, High Wycombe

IT is ludicrous to watch amb-ulances in Wycombe, sirens blazing, driving past Wycombe Hospital on the way to Stoke. When time is of the essence, the long drive could mean the difference between life and death.
David Walker-Sharpe, High Wycombe

THE town needs a hospital here not miles away.
C Walters, High Wycombe

A TOWN and community this size needs the facilities.
Gail Walters, High Wycombe

IF it hadn’t been for the close proximity, my husband would not have survived his heart attack. I drove him there in six minutes.
C Ware, 68, Great Kingshill

IT is unthinkable for a town the size of ours not to have a fully operational hospital. Give it back.
L Ward, Lane End

WE need to keep what our parents paid for when they didn’t have much money – our hospital.
Mrs Jean Warren, High Wycombe

WE need it here to save lives.
Mr Z H Watters, High Wycombe

UNTIL the public bus service is improved none of us have a hope of getting to Stoke Mandeville without a car.
Angela White, High Wycombe

WE need a hospital in High Wycombe. No hospital equals no lives and that is not acceptable.
Miss C White, Amersham

MY 94-year-old mother-in-law broke her hip in August. It only took five minutes to get to Wycombe Hospital. The journey to Stoke Mandeville would have been too long and stressful.
P White, High Wycombe

The hospital forms an invaluable part of NHS health care delivery in and around Wycombe which without it would suffer irreparably
Nicola White, High Wycombe

WHAT’S going to happen when winter sets in?
Mrs F K Whitehead, Kettering

I live in the centre of wycombe and it is very re-assuring to have all the services based within the town centre including the many departments at wycombe general hospital. I feel that with the expansion of high wycombe's shopping facilities and the amount of accommodation being built, the population will hugely increase and the town needs all the services that the government can provide. Once high wycombe's regeneration has been completed high wycombe will reap the benefits and the hospital will play a huge part in this.
***PLEASE KEEP OUR HOSPITAL AND OUR COMMUNITY HAPPY AND HEALTHY***
Roz Whittley, High Wycombe

WE need a good health service. Stoke Mandeville is too far and Wycombe can and should support a full hospital service.
R Wightson, Flackwell Heath

With the proposed increase in students at the Buckinghamshire Chilterns University in the near future with a department for Sports Degrees it is madness not to have an accident and emergency department close by. How would a student get to Stoke Mandeville? It means even more ambulances on the road, this means increased traffic more petrol more congestion, more pressure on the budget. it is madness to close Wycombe.
Mrs Carole Willatt, Widmer End

How can a town of this size (and one that is growing) not have these vital services? How many people have to lose their lives before someone wakes up and realises the impact this will have?
Jacqui Williams, High Wycombe

Could you please name the people behind this,so we can email them direct,or contact them to ask where do they live,how far would they travel to visit there family in hospital. Also wycombe has the M40 on its door step, Major incident plan!
Ken Willis, High Wycombe

Ambulances will be unavailable for emergencies for up to two hours while transporting patients to and from Stoke Manderville.
John Williams, High Wycombe

STOKE Mandeville is too far away for 90 per cent of the population of Wycombe and the surrounding areas.
Tracey Winfield, Naphill

BECAUSE it will take twice as long and I have to rely on buses – I do not have a car.
J Winslade, High Wycombe

LAST week my doctor sent me to Stoke Mandeville’s A&E for possible minor surgery.
Luckily my daughter who has two young children was able to take me but not able to stay. After waiting three and-a-half hours to see a doctor who was in theatre, nearly four hours later I was told I could at last go home.
After waiting nearly another hour my other daughter who has two young babies was able to pick me up. What a worry for me and other people like me.
Mrs P Woolfenden, Great Kingshill

STOKE Mandeville is too far away and over slow and congested roads. Wycombe is where we look to for public services.
Geoff Wood, Marlow

MORE trade and so more people will be moving to this area. Why take away a necessary facility to a new location which is inaccessible to many people, young and old?
Carol Woodley, Lane End

 "High Wycombe is a large town & deserves (NEEDS) a Hospital with full facilities including full A&E and maternity units.”
Steve White, High Wycombe

“High Wycombe is the largest town in Bucks, we have the right to have OUR hospital back to the way it was, pregnant women have the right to have their babies in High Wycombe, people have the right to be treated as soon as possible not have the excruiciating pain of going to all the way to Aylesbury. I know that it comes down to funding and the fact that the NHS is in debt, but we should have a choice in doing something about it, we should have the choice to raise money, we should have the choice and the right to have our hospital in High Wycombe. Wycombe General Hospital supports alot of areas other than High Wycombewe are a main town, we need our hospital.”
Sharon White, High Wycombe

CENTRALISATION of services leads to unnecessary use of cars, reducing healthy walking and inevitably pollution.
Jim Whitehead, Chesham

It is much too far away to be safe, people can die on the way to Aylesbury. How can we get there from Marlow to visit our family and friends?
Mrs Jean Wilks, Marlow

THIS is a democracy. Listen to us. The NHS is already poor here.
E Wilkins, Flackwell Heath

It’s too far to travel and why do we have to take public transport to Aylesbury when our hospital is on our doorstep.
U Williams, High Wycombe

I cannot believe a town the size of High Wycombe has such poor hospital services. I'ts a disgrace. I no longer live in the town and I'm glad I don't for this reason. The town I now live in is smaller but has far better NHS hospital services. My Mum is a pensioner and lives in town still, what a worry. Shameful!
S Wilson, Kettering

IT’S far for us to travel, all the way to Stoke Mandeville.
Sandra Woodland, Marlow

NAME and shame the people responsible for the insane decision to move essential services to Stoke Mandeville. The hospital belongs to the local community.
S Wooton, Flackwell Heath

MILES will cost lives.
Sue Wright, High Wycombe

We need it! Full stop.
T Wright, High Wycombe

My son was born by emergency caesarean at the hospital although I was considered to be low risk. I dread to think now what would've happened if I'd had to be moved to Stoke to have the operation. Also both my children have been treated in the children's ward and knowing it was on my doorstep made it a lot less stressful for all of us.
Tracy Wyatt, High Wycombe

THE community deserves and needs a hospital capable of delivering the full range of health care locally.
Mr R S Wynne, High Wycombe

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My stepdaughter had to rush to your hospital when she started to give birth her son had a foot out and had she had to go to stoke manderville she would almost certainly lost him. Is it bacause we are conservative that we are getting less and less services while other areas are getting better services?
John E G Yallop, Marlow Bottom

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My daughter was born by emergency caesarean at Wycombe hospital 17 years ago - she & I would almost certainly have both died had we had to go to Stoke Mandeville.
Julia Zywina, High Wycombe

THIS concerns the hospital. There will be chaos for all those that do not drive or live out of the way of regular transport,
Stokenchurch has no public transport after 6pm and we have to rely on good friends to take us to visit friends and family, if no family live nearby, so how we get to Amersham or Stoke Mandeville puzzles me It is bad enough getting to Wycombe and back. There has always been a hospital in Wycombe. With the tens of thousands of people that live in the Wycombe area we need a general hospital. With a serious illness or injury the patient could be dead before they get to Stoke Mandeville.
Name and address supplied, Stokenchurch