Cottage Hospitals fight to continue

The BBC News website reports that a legal challenge to the decision to close Jedburgh Cottage Hospital is likely. Given that it was closed as part of the same operation that closed Coldstream Cottage Hospital it seems likely that the review would include the decision to close that too.

The review request revolves around the veracity of the figures produced by NHS Borders that 15% of Cottage Hospital beds are in the Borders where only 2% of the population lives.