Howard. WADR I think anyone who wants a new full on hospital in Dover is crackers. Having been an in-patient in Dover, Folkestone and Ashford hospitals give me Ashford anytime.
Dover need what we have here in Deal. A decent A+E, X-ray, outpatients + a couple of wards for (mostly old) people as a half way house between Canterbury/Ashford/QEQM and home/mortuary.
This is one of the few cases where big is good as the more practice the buggers have at operating the better (in general) they will be. See graph below for the general trend.