AN MP is urging campaigners to prepare to take to the streets and march again if hospital cuts go ahead.
Tim Farron was speaking in advance of next month's expected announcement about the future of urgent medical admissions at Kendal's Westmorland General Hospital.
Medics and health service bosses have been working on the details of the cuts since they were agreed last September.
The original decision, to accept the so-called option three, would close the hospital to all urgent medical admissions, such as patients with suspected heart attacks and strokes.
Up to ten South Lakeland patients each day would be taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary or Furness General Hospital instead. WGH's coronary care unit would also shut.
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