COSSHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

That this House welcomes the 19 million redevelopment of Cossham Memorial Hospital; further welcomes that building work has begun finally on refurbishing the Hospital; praises the vital work of the League of Friends of Cossham Hospital and the Save Cossham Hospital Group in campaigning for Cossham to remain open and preventing the Hospital from closure under the previous government; thanks them for their determined and hard-fought campaign to keep the Hospital open; notes that Cossham Hospital is scheduled to open again in early 2012; and believes that the newly refurbished Cossham Hospital will provide first-class healthcare facilities for the people of Kingswood.