INDEPENDENT HEALTH CONCERN

STATEMENT Having achieved so many of the initial aims of Independent Health Concern (I.H.C.) as a political movement _ • The retention of Kidderminster Hospital on its original site and its development into a full Treatment Centre integrated into the county’s NHS structure • Our representative Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest - Dr. Richard Taylor M.B.E. F.R.C.P. – for two full terms (2001-2010) • The amalgamation of a number of councillors into a controlling group leading the District Council through a period of unprecedented health and economic challenges • Giving our voters the opportunity to place their trust in that Independence of thought and action that prevails in the Wyre Forest area change had to come, inevitably. Now is the time to unify the Independent Vote so that all such candidates can fight together under one independent banner to represent voters. Independent Health Concern will therefore withdraw from promoting candidates in future elections - while still supporting its serving I.H.C. councillors as these individuals become part of a larger truly independent group. This is not done with a heavy heart; indeed, we are pleased and proud of the trust which has been placed in us by so many and in all that we have achieved during the past twenty-two years. We ask those who have been our supporters for so long to give their local independent candidate their serious consideration in future elections when they cast their vote. Dr. Richard Taylor Life President Harry Grove Chairman May 2022