Bordon's patient watchdog is due to consider proposals to cut health services in a bid claw back an annual £13.5 million deficit.

Measures such as centralising services at Frimley Park and axing beds from both the Chase and Alton Community Hospitals are among those being proposed to cut costs and improve the service.

A full version of this story will be found in the Bordon Herald of September 22, 2000.