WYRE Forest Labour campaigners have been adding names to their petition of more than 10,000 signatures calling for more services at Kidderminster Hospital.

In one hour outside Kidderminster Town Hall, five party members collected 90 signatures calling on the Worcestershire NHS Trusts to open a birth unit, palliative care unit and radiotherapy unit at the town’s hospital.

Nigel Knowles, the district’s Labour Parliamentary spokesman, said: “It seems to me that now is the time for more ‘democratic accountability’ in the NHS.

“There is a potential storm brewing in Shropshire regarding the transference of A&E services from Telford to Shrewsbury and in Worcestershire we could lose cancer head and neck services to Gloucester.

“I say again that NHS service provision and location needs to have a democratic input. Let’s have elected NHS Boards now.”