FOR A/E SERVICES TO BE RETURNED TO QUEEN MARGARET HOSPITAL

I fully support your petition and wish you well with its aims and objectives. I needed referral earlier this year to a specialist for an urgent op, but refused referral to Kirkcaldy on principal, because I fully support QMH. The op went ahead five weeks ago at QMH, unfortunately there followed complications and I needed urgent treatment from a doctor who happened to be based at the Victoria Hospital A&E. I wasn't feeling at all well, plus the taxi-ride to the Victoria, Kirkcaldy costing £38 shocked me and made me all the more angry that patients and families in West Fife are being placed in this situation through no fault of their own! A very kind neighbour collected me from the Victoria Hospital four hours later. It just highlighted the long journey from West Fife to the A&E at Kirkcaldy. I really feel for those others - Pensioners, families with children who have to make this same journey and believe that moving the A&E to the Victoria could cost lives! I read John Wilson's response in the Dunfermline Press to your campaign this week inviting you to meet with him. I wasn't impressed by what he had to say and wondered if indeed he or the health board even listened to those 20,000 + petitioners! May the response grow bigger...