Wycombe and Marlow MP Paul Goodman has spoken at what’s likely to be the last public meeting called before the start of the general election.
The meeting was organised by Marlow People’s Action Group (Marlow PAG) at Great Marlow School and was attended by some 200 local residents.
Paul stressed that the three biggest local health problems of his two terms as the local MP had been underfunding, lack of local control and chaotic NHS reorganisation “like the perpetual revolution in Mao’s China”.
This had been the background, he said, to cuts and closures at Wycombe Hospital.
Supporting the view of Conservative prospective Parliamentary candidate Steve Baker, Paul called for fairer local funding – leading to Wycombe Hospital becoming a self-governing foundation trust – and the commissioning of health services to be taken out of the hands of bureaucrats and given to GPs.
Speaking at the meeting, Paul said: “I very much wanted to come because health, and Wycombe Hospital in particular, has been the real distinct issue for me as an MP.”
Paul’s work as a constituency MP was praised by local Labour agent John Barlow.
