Please find below an important update sent today by our MP, Chris Grayling. As you can read, there will shortly be a vote by local GPs on the future of Epsom Hospital. The key action point is in the penultimate paragraph- "...can I urge you that if you have the chance, you ask your local GP to vote against the plan to downgrade Epsom." Along with this, the financial position at Epsom Hospital has improved significantly, and there is chance now that the Epsom and St Helier Trust might be able to get what is called foundation status, which would mean that it would be in a much stronger position to resist proposals to downgrade the services it provides in future.