I READ in the Daily Echo (07.07.15) that Poole Hospital is in deficit at the end of March to the tune of £3.6m (Re: Consultation of the future of Dorset’s health services by the CCG), which includes controversial changes that could see either Poole Hospital or Royal Bournemouth Hospital established as the county’s ‘major emergency centre’. The other will become the ‘major planned hospital’.

Our hospitals in Dorchester, Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch are all strapped for cash, so, wherever you live, people of Dorset, is your local hospital important to you?

Perhaps a trust fund could be set up in the area where you live, your local bank, somewhere where local people can walk in to their local branch, and donate cash for the local running of their nearest hospital.

If we all voluntarily donate in the areas where we live, perhaps as a whole we can save our local hospitals.

I, for one, do not have a car, so cannot travel miles to the next hospital, nor do I have a computer or mobile phone.

Could the Daily Echo run a question and answer campaign - ideas that we the local residents would like to see for the future of our local hospitals?

MARION WHITE

South Western Crescent, Lower Parkstone, Poole