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Home >> Campaign news >> The threat to the PRH >> Consultation details >> What the clinicians say >> Help deliver the leaflet >> Forthcoming events >> Past events >> Send us your stories >> Online petition >> Printable petition >> Photo gallery >> Supporters >> Contact us >>	70,000 strong petition to be taken to Whitehall 23 October 2007 The petition against the downgrading of Accident & Emergency and consultant-led maternity services at the Princess Royal Hospital will next week be taken by local MPs to Whitehall for presentation to the Secretary of State for Health. 70,000 people from Mid Sussex and the surrounding areas have now signed the petition, over a period of more than a year, in protest at the plans put forward by the West Sussex Primary Care Trust. Campaigners and MPs will join with the Keep Worthing and Southlands Hospitals campaign in Westminster to deliver the two campaign’s petitions contained in a coffin, to signify the risks to patient health that local clinicians believe the proposals will present. MPs will then join Newick GP Dr Herry Ashby who will present letters from 180 GPs to Downing Street, in an expression of widespread clinical opposition to the Primary Care Trust’s downgrading plans. The presentation of the petition will come just a fortnight ahead of the close of the Primary Care Trust’s consultation, and shortly after the mass protest in Haywards Heath which attracted 14,000 local residents. Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames said: “with just weeks to go before the end of the consultation, it is an honour to be presenting the campaign’s petition in Whitehall on behalf of local residents. To have 70,000 people sign up in opposition to the loss of services from the PRH is a tremendous show of public support for our hospital’s services”