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  It costs a fortune to get to out patients appointments. I am lucky in being able to access the Volunteer Service but even that costs over £25 to and from Canterbury for a very brief checkup and "see you in xxx weeks". I would willingly take the bus but with my particular health problem one gets very weary and I am not sure how I would stand up to bus from here to Pencester and from there to K & C and back again and worry about my husband, also not in best of health, having to heave my wheelchair around, but nevertheless think we will have to try it. I just cannot understand why at least one clinic for each speciality cannot be held in Dover. What are we going to do about blood tests if they close Dover? My GP doesn't do them and my heart sinks at having to do the round trip to Canterbury just for a blood test. I am lucky in that I am still (fairly) young but I worry about how older and more frail people cope with this hiking round the countryside. If you are lucky enough to be in good health it is hard to realise just how draining a simple trip to the hospital can be.
  Sorry, I don't mean to whinge but I really think the NHS is going to hell in a handcart as far as this kind of thing is concerned.

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