THE community of the Wyre Forest with great effort over the last decade raised over £2,500,000 to invest in the facilities of our excellent hospital and to help keep local health services in the black.

When the Government wrote off the old NHS Trust deficit we, the people of Wyre Forest, from our private pockets in effect underwrote this by the amounts we raised.

We should have the money back, and decide again where it goes.

We invested in excellence that was assured, not the health management we are now getting.

R SPRAGG, Ash Grove, Kidderminster