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Brown goes to South Africa - Birmingham gets a hospital

For the government to only reduce the hospital by 108 beds is a small cut in comparison to those they are making elsewhere. We, therefore, should welcome the final announcement of the new hospital.

It has taken some time, but we have finally got there. The irony is that it appeared to require Gordon Brown's absence before it was signed off.

Still a new hospital is a new hospital.

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