At the District  Council level Suffolk Together have campaigned for the retention of local surgeries so that  elderly people and those without cars have access to medical facilities without having to travel too far.  If elected to the County Council we will be in a much stronger position to argue for the retention of specialist facilities within the county.  It isapparent that  many of our county specialist facilities are being transferred outside the county on the grounds that  other counties have better specialist units and that Suffolk residents would have better treatment if they travelled outside the county. This not only ignores what happens in time -critical or frequent -visit cases, but it totally begs the question as to why Suffolk can't have its own top flight specialist units.

It appears to us that the county is quiite happy to import other counties waste materials for incineration with its attendent health risks on the one hand and at the same time is setting about exporting our specialist medical facilities on the other. We don't believe that this is satisfactory.  Will you help us put this right?