A TOWN health watchdog will be making its feelings on eye services clear at a meeting with the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) next Thursday.

Redditch and Bromsgrove CHC will stress the need for another consultant to treat patients in the Bromsgrove and Redditch area for ailments like cataracts.

CHI is taking comments from the public and patient groups before it inspects the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust which manages the Alexandra Hospital in December.

CHC chairman David McGrath said the CHI meeting would be an important forum for it to air its views.

He also said the CHC and Trust were now holding regular meetings to improve communication.