HEALTH campaigners are being urged to join a protest march against proposed service cuts, including plans to scrap Wyre Forest Primary Care Trust.
The West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority is considering setting up a single primary care trust for Worcestershire but protesters fear it will take away local accountability and cause huge disruption to services.
The protest - in Bromsgrove on Saturday - organised by the Save the Alex Group, will also focus on proposals to downgrade the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and the suggested closure of The Brook Haven Mental Health Care unit in Bromsgrove.
Group leader, Neal Stote, said campaigners were also opposed to plans to form one ambulance trust for the West Midlands and to the formation of one strategic health authority to replace the existing three in Shropshire and Staffordshire, Birmingham and the Black Country and West Midlands South.
"If the current proposals for the PCTs went ahead we would be left with a Worcester Central led health care service," said Mr Stote.
"The loss of the Redditch/Bromsgrove and Wyre Forest Primary Care Trusts will leave local residents without a voice."
The protest march will start in Bromsgrove town centre outside Woolworths, in the High Street, at 11am.
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