There are proposals to close Monklands Hospital and build a new hospital out of town, with Gartcosh the preferred option.

We the undersigned are calling on the Scottish Government to stop the closure and instead build a new hospital on the same site as the current hospital.

The new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was built on the same site as the Southern General – if this can be done for the people of Glasgow it can be done for the people of Lanarkshire.