IAN DOWNING, of Church­fields, Dartmouth, writes:

I have discovered that the X-ray department at the hospital is now closed and the £60,000 X-ray machine, which the League of Friends purchased for the hospital, is to be ­transferred to Totnes.

The Dartmouth public ­contributed the funds for this machine from their own pockets, and many, like myself, were X-rayed on it for different health reasons and avoided having to travel for this to Totnes.

The clinical commissioning group apparently said there are not enough radiographers to operate a machine in Dartmouth, yet many of us know that when staff was short in the past, the X-ray department was operated by visiting staff and this worked well.

Can our GPs and the Patient Participation Group ask the CCG to review this decision please and confirm that a ­physiotherapy service will also remain in the town.