Aneurin Bevin must be spinning in his grave. He was the one who brought us a health service for all in 1946.

Now we have the spectre of losing our A&E at St Helier together with the maternity unit and the children’s hospital. I expect most people will remember the Queen Mary’s Hospital on a huge site in Carshalton. It treated children from all over the country because it was such a specialist hospital.

Then someone in their wisdom thought it was a good idea to sell the land (for yet more homes) and move the hospital to an annexe at St Helier.

How is anyone either in labour or with a very sick child expected to travel to Tooting through rush hour traffic with all the attendant worries to contend with? The AA route planner says the journey will take 25 minutes but I expect that is when there is no traffic on the roads! Fortunately, I don’t very often have cause to visit the A&E department but I am sure that if in the future I have to go to Tooting, I like many others will call an ambulance instead of presenting myself at the hospital. Also, has anyone carried out a study to see how Tooting will cope with the increased demand? Will one have to sit the entire day in hospital to get seen?

Now health bosses have said that it is too early to launch a save our services campaign. Why is it too early? Are we supposed to wait for a "done deal" and then start campaigning only to be told we’re too late?

Kay Hévey, 1 Banstead Road, Carshalton Beeches