Around 3,000 people joined hands in Kendal to demonstrate against cuts at the town's hospital, reports the BBC.
Protestors formed a three-mile human chain around the Westmorland General on Saturday.
Last year Morecambe Bay NHS Trust's directors approved proposals to stop treating acute conditions at the Westmorland Hospital, forcing patients to travel to Barrow or Lancaster for treatment.
The hospital bosses have defended the decision to cut the services, claiming that patients will receive better treatment at Barrow and Lancaster - dodging the question of why services couldn't be 'improved' at Westmorland Hospital instead.
Clearly a lack of public money - not least because it's being wasted by being handed to the audit-failing EU - is the reason patients across the country are being forced to travel ever-further for the treatments they need.
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