NHS chiefs are refusing to say if they are planning to cut service at the Dilke Memorial Hospital in Cinderford so they can man a new state of the art X-Ray machine in Lydney.
Dame Janet Trotter has unveiled a new £200,000 X-Ray unit at Lydney Hospital even though NHS chiefs admitted they did not have the staff to run the new suite which was paid for with a £120,000 cheque from The Friends of Lydney Hospital.
Now sources close to the NHS claim X-Ray provision at the historic miners’ memorial hospital in Cinderford is about to be scaled down when the minor injuries unit at the hospital re-opens after a six week makeover.
Full story in GloucestershireLive, 27 June 2017