The BBC’s Inside Out programme filmed campaigners outside the PRH in a provocative documentary about the most desirable configurations of health services in the area. Filmmakers challenged the campaign on their assertion that locally accessible services were the most desirable to meet the health needs of people in Mid Sussex and the surrounding area.

The film, to be shown on 7^th November, sought to examine the Primary Care Trust’s view that the majority of health services should be centralised in regional hospitals. Campaigners, clinicians and local Councillors took the opportunity to set out the public and medical opposition to the plans.

A spokesman for the Support the PRH campaign said: “the campaign was pleased to take part in the document to again put the case that the majority of healthcare should be delivered at locally accessible hospitals, such as the Princess Royal. The PCT’s argument for centralisation of services at Brighton is increasingly discredited. Over 70,000 local people have signed the petition against it, and there is not a single GP in Mid Sussex who supports the plans”.