REGARDING last week's front page "Fury Over New Hospital", I can see that Wyre Forest MP Dr Richard Taylor has every right to be angry.

I can also see why Worcester needed a new hospital. My husband had a serious emergency operation at Ronkswood last year and while his surgeon was awe-inspiringly brilliant, while the nurses did everything they could to make him comfortable, the hospital building was a total nightmare.

It was too small, difficult to keep clean and had a pathetic car park.

Worcester urgently needed a new hospital, money is limited and I suppose they couldn't afford to run Kidderminster and build Worcester at the same time.

But the new hospital is now built and it isn't big enough and there is a perfectly good hospital standing idle in Kidderminster.

It's no use saying Kidderminster must be kept for outpatients and clinics. It is needed for surgery, to ease the strain on Worcester.

Also, can anyone tell me why small town Tenbury Wells needs A&E but big town Kidderminster doesn't?

Don't Kidderminster people have accidents like the rest of the county? Or heart attacks?

Surely Worcester Acute NHS Trust management must see the logic - overcrowded Worcester, empty Kidderminster, problem fixable.

I would just add that we out here at the edge of the universe are fed up to the back teeth with having to trek up the goat track (I wouldn't grant it road status) from Tenbury or Cleobury to Worcester.

PAULENE KING

Boraston

Tenbury Wells