Quite agree sqad.
As usual The Mail is barking emotively up the wrong tree - for every one of the (very few) people who may suffer because their local A&E is closing, hundreds will get a better outcome because thay are taken to a modern, well organised and equipped A&E rather than a 'too small to be safe' unit.
In my own area, in a 'blue light' emergency, I would insist on being taken to UHCW in Coventry, even if the ambulance was going to drive me past the doors of St Cross in Rugby.