NATIONAL health watchdogs have been inundated with requests from people wanting to have their say about hospital services.

The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) is carrying out a review of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust as part of a national round of inspections.

District people have been invited to have their say as part of the 17-week probe, with a day set aside in Kidderminster next Wednesday - and every appointment has already been filled.

A similar event in Worcester is also full, although a couple of slots are left in Redditch.

A spokesman for CHI said there had been an unusually good response.

"Anyone who has not got one of the 45 appointment slots available can still make their views known by writing, phoning or e-mailing the review team," she added.

Write to review manager Lorraine Foster at Commission for Health Improvement, Freepost, LON15399, London EC1B 1QW, or e-mail her at lorraine.foster@chi.nhs.uk .