Dear Editor

Ross-on-Wye Community Hospital Minor Injuries Units (MIU) is temporarily closed due to winter pressures being faced by the Trust.

According to the Trust, ‘The Hospital’s MIUs, run by Wye Valley NHS Trust, has been temporarily closed with immediate effect for a brief period.

This will boost the resources at Hereford County Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department, enabling the Trust to continue to see patients and care for the increased number of patients requiring admission to acute hospital.

Well, that may be all well and good if you live in Hereford, but if, like us, you don’t, that’s not of very much help at all!

We all know that although it is right for us all to rail at the Wye Valley NHS Trust about this, it’s not really their fault that this is happening.

They are trying to keep all their NHS plates spinning with less and less support and money from the minority Tory Government.

The current Government is trying to cut all links between themselves and the social infrastructure of the country, they call it ‘Austerity’, I call it ‘Privatisation by a Thousand Cuts’.

It was one hundred years ago that the NHS was set up in order to provide health care from the cradle to the grave for all. Not to be privatised for the benefit of the wealthy!

Rob Bell

Ross-on-Wye