More than 5,000 people have joined a campaign launched by the South Wales Evening Post objecting to plans to move a neurosurgery unit from Swansea to Cardiff.

Readers have registered their objection by sending in vouchers printed in the Post to condemn the move.

Hospital managers and consultants in Swansea have warned that transferring the service to Cardiff could put children’s lives at risk.

The Specialist Health Services Commission for Wales is due to produce a report detailing the planned move, but members of the Welsh Assembly, economic minister Andrew Davies, local government minister Edwina Hart and their Labour colleague Val Lloyd, have all called for the plans to be scrapped.

A statement from the trio said: “No attempt has been made by SHSCW to construct a debate on the rationale behind the proposed restructuring of paediatric services or the way in which these vital children’s services are to be provided. Consequently, we believe a consultation in the current situation to be meaningless and deeply flawed.

“The commission does not appear to have considered, or the report propose, a meaningful range of alternative models or options for the configuration of paediatric services in South Wales.”

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