Please support the petition for a dedicated military hospital
There is a petition posted on the Government petitions website by Denzil Connick which reads: 'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Create a dedicated Military & Veterans Hospital within the UK.' Go to the petition via link at: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Wounded/

Nigel Steward has sent in details and provides some background: '2 Para' alone have on their current tour

sent back over 50 casualties to the UK, and even this number cannot be accommodated at Selly Oak Hospital. So when all of the casualties from other battle groups are added to this figure, how is one ward in one NHS hospital going to cope? It cannot and as a result the individual troops are sent home to recover relying on NHS visiting services which themselves are over committed. We need a dedicated military hospital if servicemen and servicewomen, who have been committed to hostilities and injured, so they can get the medical care they rightly deserve".

Nigel adds "a lot more than 5,000 names are needed for this petition to survive, and quite cynically, Downing Street has put a time limit of one month - during the summer holidays - for this to be achieved. Please support this worthy petition by using the link above to confirm your signature on the petition. Please forward details of the petition to as many people as you can".
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