WORCESTERSHIRE Clinical Commissioning Group (the group who buy the health services) in a statement issued before the Save our Services rally say that the NHS continues to listen to the public. If they have been doing this over the last three years, why was it necessary on a cold wet miserable day for hundreds of residents to turn out to support the Save our Services rally run by the Save the Alex campaign?

Some of us were from Studley and know that it is just as difficult for some Redditch residents to get to Worcester as it is for Studley residents to get to Warwick. In the past the difficulty of accessing services hardly seems to have been taken into account. The latest review is not to be published until after the election, so accessibility we hope may have been considered.

The speakers got to the heart of the problem, which is the debt at Worcestershire Royal Hospital and allowing local services to disappear from our area because money is running out in Worcester is unacceptable.

Transferring the management of the Alexandra Hospital to University Hospital Birmingham, which has money, has to be an option.

Hopefully the Commissioners are listening. We hope that they can hear the public loud and clear. At the rally they certainly made it clear – “Save our Services”

Hazel Wright Clive Rickhards Paul Beaman Studley