Campaigners who opposed a major acute services shake-up in Kidderminster are to stand a candidate in the general election. Health Concern - the group that currently holds 18 of the 42 seats on Wyre Forest district council - is to stand Dr Richard Taylor against sitting Labour MP David Lock in the Wyre Forest consituency. Dr Taylor, a former consultant, led the long campaign against the bitterly contested closure of accident and emergency and acute inpatient services at Kidderminster General Hospital.
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