EMMA ROYDE, of Clarence Street, Dartmouth, writes:

I have looked at the ­proposals concerning our ­hospital and reshaping health sources, as outlined in ‘Into the future’, and I don’t like what I see.

No hospital, with ours to be sold off, no fully manned minor injuries unit and precious few amenities, but an expectation that we can access easily Totnes Hospital.

And yet Kingsbridge, down the road, has a fully functional, thriving, 12-bed community hospital that is not under threat of closure. Kingsbridge’s population is less than ours in Dartmouth, while the journey time is quicker and the distance to Totnes is less than for us in Dartmouth.

This begs the question: why us? Saving money seems to be the NHS’s chief preoccupation at present. Are we to assume it has been running down our hospital for a number of years in order to declare it unfit for purpose and sell off a very valuable site? This would indeed prop up NHS coffers, but at our expense. How shameful if true.

I shall not support the ­proposals.