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Last ditch bid to fight Wycombe Hospital changes
Campaigners are hoping to galvanise a final offensive against controversial plans to change services at Wycombe Hospital.
A meeting has been called in Marlow on Friday to discuss the loss of serious A&E cases and doctor-led births at the hospital.
Organiser Terry Price said he wanted enough support to push for a judicial review of the changes.
Serious trauma cases such as road accidents are no longer taken to the hospital and consultant-led births will leave at the end of the year.
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust made the changes - which will see many mums go to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury for doctor-led births - through public consultations.
But Mr Price, chairman of Marlow 50+ Action Group, said: "I don't think the trust has taken into consideration what local people want.
"We will go for a judicial review if they won't listen to us."
Members of Wycombe District Council are among those invited to the meeting, including councillor Wendy Mallen.
She said: "We have an over population in the north of the county with new housing and that will attract young people.
"We are concerned about the pressure that will put on Stoke Mandeville."
The balance was "unequal" she said as Wycombe's midwife-led maternity unit was being massively underused.
Health chiefs this week confirmed just 126 women used the unit in 2007/08 - 450 are needed to make it "financially sustainable" they said.
Mr Goodman - who strongly opposed the changes - said he wanted to "set out some ideas about how to give local people more power" at the meeting.
A "key theme" of the consultations was "a lack of control over our NHS in Buckinghamshire".
Trust chief executive has been invited to the meeting. The trust was not available for comment.
The meeting is at the General Higginson Room, Court Garden, Pound Lane, Marlow at 7pm.
8:53am Thursday 1st May 2008
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