THE Accident and Emergency department at the Alexandra Hospital remains in jeopardy after a meeting held to discuss saving it was postponed.

Members of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust board were set to make a formal recommendation to the Special Review Project Board to save the A&E's subsidiary departments last Tuesday.

The trust board announced it would be making the recommendation just days before Christmas, leading campaigners to believe the A&E would be saved.

However, the meeting was cancelled after trust chief executive John Rostill was unavailable, renewing fears that the emergency surgery and trauma care departments could still be transferred to Worcester.

Meanwhile the axe is still hanging over the hospital's paediatric, maternity and gynaecology departments.

Greenlands dad Neal Stote, who is spearheading the savethealex campaign, said: "Because the meeting was cancelled it means A&E services at the Alexandra Hospital are still at as much risk as the maternity, paediatric and gynaecology services."

He added: "There has been no word of when this meeting has been postponed to."

But a spokesman for the trust said the meeting had been rescheduled for January 30.

Mr Rostill is also being called to a public meeting organised by the savethealex campaign at Redditch Town Hall on February 8 at 7.30pm.

For more details on the campaign, visit www.savethealex.co.uk

All correspondence can also be sent to the Redditch Advertiser, Grosvenor House, Prospect Hill, Redditch, B97 4DL.