Perhaps we should camp out on site

IT was interesting to see politicians renewing the campaign to have a replacement hospital built in Littlehampton (Gazette, June 16). Nobody doubts the need – so surely the problem is money.

This coalition government is embarking, in a chaotic way, on a massive and expensive top-down reorganisation of the NHS. It seeks to replace primary care trusts (PCTs) with GP commissioning groups – doing the same job, but in a different place, with different geographical boundaries.

Just as PCTs do at present, they will use the budget allocated to them to purchase primary health services for us. Are these politicians seriously suggesting that the PCT about to be abolished is likely to make a decision to build a new hospital?