This is a terrible and deliberate closure of services in good modern facilities and investment into old and dangerous buildings. The £38m will not fix the condemned gas supply, will continue to ignore specific needs of the multicultural community and serves no other purpose as a means to a an end which will as quickly do away with the new "£38m" investment as quickly as it is created. This is the work of political spin doctoring, profits in exchange for peoples health. An "emergency Service" cannot improve if you move it further away from people. All you have to do is a comparison to number 'senior doctors' available per person covered in 1995 to 2009 and you will truely see whether we have gained, or have had our right to live 'sold'. Our Human Rights are being affected - and this will be made very clear.

I agree with everything Paul has said. Yet again, saving money is given higher priority than lives.
It is time the faceless people who make such decisions were made accountable. Maybe if they had to pay a hefty fine out of their own pocket in compensation to relatives of all the people who will die or are disabled because of such madness - it would soon make them use commonsense for a change and treat the people who are paying for this service with the care they deserve.

I was in Watford A&E around 2 months ago with my mother who had an eye injury, I was speaking to the nurses on duty (which were understaffed by 3 according to them), but they stated that the one reason for them being busy is people using A&E as a drop in for common illness. One Woman on that day claimed to be bleeding from below, in fact she was just having a period - does that not tell us something about our society and how we abuse the free service? They need to save money some how if people use A&E for the wrong reasons. What about having all fresh immigrates to pay for all health care until they have paid enough tax to cover the cost? Other countries do it so why not the UK? I've started living in Australia and I can not claim ANY health care for 2 years, I have to have private insurance - this would save money and stop people using the NHS as a medical hotel.

As normal, the government saving money on health but then will give billions to Africa so the can waste in fraud in their governments!