Grantham Hospital Defence Committee has welcomed United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust's financial and service plan, which was published last month and pledged "no significant change" to the way A and E services are provided in the town.

The committee says its new aim is to ensure that the pledges made in the document are followed through.
Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust is leading the consultation which will look at the future of services in the county including the decision in February to temporarily end emergency surgery in Grantham.

Committee chairman Ian Mihill said: "When we set up the committee in June last year we thought there wasn't going to be a hospital and I suppose the underlying result of what we've done so far, provided Gary Walker delivers, is we're going to have 95 per cent of what we had.
"On behalf of the town GHDC is going to work with the trust to try to follow the whole thing through. We're not going to go away.
"People in Grantham are naturally sceptical because of what's happened in the past. There comes a time when we have to believe what we've been told."

Members of the public can read and comment on the service and financial plan by going to www.ulh.nhs.uk/thefuture