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Please read this, it's to do with the setting up of a specific hospital for military personnel. and sign the petition. PLEASE.

I have been sent the following message . My understanding is that Selly Oak is good but its just not able to deal with the numbers coming back. Like that outrageous business at Ashford where the NIMBY's tried to stop a Families Hospital near Headley Court , this seems to me to be one that the whole military family should get behind. As you will see below, time is short but it should still be possible to get some real numbers behind this one. If you feel able to help please sign up by visiting the link below, and also please pass it on. I'm not in favour to chain letters but this one really is worth it. They stopped road pricing because of the millions who signed one of these petitions - maybe we can do the same for a military hospital.

Just some background, 2 Para alone have on this tour sent back over 50 casualties to the UK and from having been to Selly Oak myself I know that many cannot be accommodated so when all of the casualties from other battle groups are added to the figure, how is ONE ward in an NHS hospital going to cope? It cannot cope, the individual troops are sent home to recover relying on NHS visiting services which themselves are over committed.

A lot more than 5000 names are needed for this petition and quite cynically, Downing Street has put a time limit of one month for this to be achieved.

Do what you can.'

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Wounded/

Come on guys spread the word, less than a month to go.

Done Helen... have also e-mailed to everyone I know.

Hubby served 34 years, came out in 2005.

Love

Daff xxx

ps.... after people have signed, don't forget to go into your e-mail account and confirm, otherwise your vote doesn't register.

xxx

A worthy petition to sign. It was so ridiculous when they did way with all the good military hospitals such as Wroughton and Haslar.

Ann
Glos

Military hospitals should never have been closed in the first place. We had an excellent RAF hospital at Ely, which dealt with NHS civilian patients too. I had both my children there, and my daughter was well looked after when she was found to have a dislocated hip from birth.

There were times, ie during the Falklands war, that the hospital was on red alert, and we civis would have to go to Addenbrokes in Cambridge for treatment, but other than that, we were in mixed (civilian/military) wards, with service people from army and airforce alike.

Why they ever closed them I will never know.

Signed

42,841 signatures so far....

Signed

Just Signed

George

Done and all the family too.

Thanks Daff for sending the link.

Linda x

Just signed

Signed


Barrie

DONE

signed
xxxx

i have signed the military hospitals are 2nd to none both my kids were born in wegberg and i know headley court is special the day the cambridge shut in Aldershot was the worst i loved working there ,Maz

n

Hubby has e-mailed half the British Army, SSAFA, British Legion, BLESMA, his Corps Association, and everyone else he can think of... noticed a few old friends popping their names on, lol!!

Love

Daff xxx

Only wish I could do more !!!! have signed, as will friends and family
JoyceP

Both myself and hubby have signed, and am passing it on to all contacts

Jan x

will happily sign...I worked at Birmingham airport last summer and saw nightly the flight that was sent to the far end of the airport, away from the terminal buildings and discharged into ambulances casualties of war.

signed and also confirmed XX..

Wow, Thank you all so very much for signing the petition, I've just looked and there are now 44,589 peoples names on there now. At 2.50 this afternoon there was 42,841 that's nearly 2,000 people in 6 hours. now I know that it's not all you lot on here, but for those that have signed Thank You all.