One of the things that should not be forgotten as we go into the polling booth is that Chris Mole has supported plans to cut the specialist units out of Ipswich Hospital and Ben Gummer has campaigned to attract them here. That’s what Ipswich gets when Labour (or any party) takes it for granted.

Save Ipsiwch Hospital Services

(If you look at the photo closely you’ll see Ben Gummer had a beard at the time. Oh dear.)

Yesterday Andrew Lansley came up to Ipswich Hospital in his battle bus (more like a skirmish van, but anyway) and was met by more than sixty supporters. In this he promised that a Conservative government would give Ipswich Hospital trust status. This will be a real advance.

He’s the only shadow cabinet minister to be guaranteed to get his portfolio should the Conservatives get a majority Let’s get him in and let’s hold him to it.

The NHYes battle bus

Update:  It’s changed a lot since I wrote this.  This article in the Evening Star says that there will be moves to explore setting up a specialist heart center for Ipswich.  Well done Ben Gummer!  Now I have to replace the headline “Not good enough”.

So they are still going to move the heart services to Cambridge, Norwich and Basildon but at least we’re going to get some drugs in case the ambulance gets held up.

However it is progress, and if Ben Gummer hadn’t been making such a consistent fuss on this we wouldn’t even have got the drugs.

Still, keep up the pressure.