Save Chelsea & Westminster's children's A&E and maternity units, says Jane Asher The hospital is currently running a Safe in our Hands campaign urging NHS managers not to go ahead with the plans. Ms Asher told The Daily Telegraph that it would be a "tragedy" if the units were allowed to close. She said that while ministers have to make difficult choices in this "dire economic situation," adding: "I can't help feeling there are perhaps other things that should go first. It would be terrible of it did go. Ms McElhone, a star of the film the Truman Show whose late husband Martin Kelly was a surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, said: "Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is one of the best hospitals in the country. I gave birth to my three sons there, and the hospital continues to provide an incredible service for my kids and all the kids in and around this area. The staff are exemplar. My husband chose to work there - over and above any other hospital. I now know many of the doctors and surgeons he worked alongside, They are not just top of their profession but some of the kindest and most gracious human beings I have ever met. This bastion should be celebrated not thwarted! The fact that the unit is under threat could be an embarrassment for Health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who praises the hospital's maternity unit in an interview in this week's Spectator magazine. Earlier this year it emerged that during the Leveson inquiry into press ethics Mr Hunt formed a friendship with former BSkyB lobbyist Fred Michel when their children were born at the same time in the hospital in late May 2010. Saving Chelsea A&E SIR - We are writing to support the "Safe in our hands campaign" to save the children's hospital and maternity unit at Chelsea and Westminster hospital. Families from across the south, west and north of London rely on these services. Chelsea treats 80,000 youngsters each year and is consistently ranked as one of the country's best children's hospitals, while the maternity unit brings 6,000 new lives into the world every year. However, the NHS is reviewing how it can streamline health services in London. Among the options being considered is downgrading Chelsea and Westminster to local hospital status, which would reduce its A&E service and lead to the closure of its maternity unit. Limiting these services could have a detrimental effect on the hospital's outstanding paediatrics unit, which is one of the best in the world. We appreciate difficult choices have to be taken about the future of health provision, but believe the future of the maternity unit and children's hospital at Chelsea and Westminster must be saved. Jane Asher Natascha McElhone Anne Robinson Daley Thompson London SW10