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Maybe it's time for MPs to demonstrate some leadership rather than cowardly recourse to "Save our Hospital" sloganising. All across the South East there are health facilities which add cost to the system and should have been rationalised years ago. This results in a dilution of resource which is therefore a dilution of the quality of care. I would rather travel twice as far for a clinician to give me th best care, because of the volumes (s)he is used to delivering, rather than pop round the corner to an A&E which has no senior staff after 5pm, sees a cardiologist when there's an R in the month and the staff are stretched beyond fatigue by stretched shifts and sheer slog. Time for MPs to speak for the long term benefits of the system change not for their own short term personal profile. To single out Paul Burstow would be invidious- there are so many like him.